Seropositivity for anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies among blood donors of the "Hospital Universitário Regional do Norte do Paraná", Londrina, Brazil Soropositividade para anticorpos anti-Tiypanosoma cruzi em doadores de sangue do Hospital Universitário Regional do Norte do Paraná, Londrina, Brasil

The most frequent form of acquisition of Chagas' disease in endemic areas was the transmission through the feces of contaminated triatominae. However, special attention should be paid in urban areas to transmission by blood transfusion, justifying the compulsory screening of blood donors. Early...

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Published in:	Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Main Authors:	Edna Maria Vissoci Reiche, Marta Mutsumi Zaha Inouye, Rubens Pontello, Helena Kaminami Morimoto, Shiduca Itow Jankevicius, Tiemi Matsuo, José Vitor Jankevicius
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1996-06-01
Subjects:	Blood donors Chagas' disease Trypanosoma cruzi
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651996000300014