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Chagas Disease

Publications

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

Blood Donor Screening for Chagas Disease — United States, 2006--2007 (February 23, 2007 / 56(07); 141-143)

Chagas Disease After Organ Transplantation — Los Angeles, California, 2006 (July 28, 2006 / 55(29);798-800)

Chagas Disease After Organ Transplantation — United States, 2001 (March 15, 2002 / 51(10);210-212)

Global Disease Elimination and Eradication as Public Health Strategies (December 31, 1999 / 48 / Supplement)

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

Autochthonous Transmission of Trypansoma cruzi, Louisiana
(Vol 13, No. 4 April 2007)

Periurban Trypanosoma cruzi–infected Triatoma infestans, Arequipa, Peru (Vol. 12, No. 9 September 2006)

Reinfestation Sources for Chagas Disease Vector, Triatoma infestans, Argentina (Vol. 12, No. 7 July 2006)

Human Trypanosoma cruzi Infection and Seropositivity in Dogs, Mexico (Vol. 12, No. 4 April 2006)

Genomic Changes of Chagas Disease Vector, South America (Vol. 10, No. 3 March 2004)

Trypanosoma cruzi in Persons without Serologic Evidence of Disease, Argentina (Vol. 9, No. 12 December 2003)

Congenital Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Argentina (Vol. 9, No. 1 January 2003)

Chagas Disease in a Domestic Transmission Cycle, Southern Texas, USA (Vol. 9, No. 1 January 2003)

Ecologic Niche Modeling and Potential Reservoirs for Chagas Disease, Mexico (Vol. 8, No. 7 July 2002)

Emerging Chagas Disease: Trophic Network and Cycle of Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi from Palm Trees in the Amazon (Vol. 7, No. 1 January—February 2001)

Bacterial Symbiosis in Arthropods and the Control of Disease Transmission (Vol. 4, No. 4 October-December 1998)

Resurgent Vector-Borne Diseases as a Global Health Problem (Vol. 4, No. 3 July-September 1998)

Blood Safety (Vol. 4, No. 3 July-September 1998)

Risk for Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases in Central and South America (Vol. 4, No. 1 January-March 1998)

Emerging Infectious Diseases — Brazil (Vol. 4., No. 1 January-March 1998)

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Other Sources

Bern C, Montgomery SP, Herwaldt BL, Rassi A, Marin-Neto JA, Dantas RO, et al. Evaluation and Treatment of Chagas Disease in the United States: A Systematic Review. JAMA. 2007;298(18):2171-2181.

Barrett M, Burchmore R, Stich A, Lazzari J, Frasch A, Cazzulo J,et al. The trypanosomiases. Lancet. 2003;362:1469-1480.

Dias JCP, Silveira AC, Schofield CJ. The impact of Chagas disease control in Latin America: a review. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2002;97:603-612.

Leiby DA, Herron RM, Read EJ, Lenes BA, Stumpf RJ. Trypanosoma cruzi in Los Angeles and Miami blood donors: impact of evolving donor demographics on seroprevalence and implications for transfusion transmission. Transfusion. 2002;42:549-555.

Herwaldt BL. Laboratory-acquired parasitic infections from accidental exposures. Clin Microb Rev. 2001;14:659-688.

Herwaldt BL, Grijalva MJ, Newsome AL, McGhee CR, Powell MR, Nemec DG, et al. Use of polymerase chain reaction to diagnose the fifth reported US case of autochthonous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, in Tennessee, 1998. J Infect Dis. 2000;181:395-399.

Kirchhoff LV. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) - a tropical disease now in the United States. N Engl J Med. 1993;329:639-644.

Hagar JM, Rahimtoola SH. Chagas' heart disease in the United States. N Engl J Med. 1991:325:763-768.

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Page last modified: November 14, 2007
Page last reviewed: August 29, 2008
Content Source: Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPD)
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases (ZVED)