Chagas Disease in Latin American Immigrants With Dilated Cardiomyopathy in New York City

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• Alternative Title:
  Clin Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Kapelusznik, Luciano ; Varela, Deborah ; Montgomery, Susan P. ; Shah, Arti N. ; Steurer, Francis J. ; Rubinstein, David ; Caplivski, Daniel ; Pinney, Sean P. ; Turker, Dana ; Factor, Stephanie H.
• Description:
  Chagas disease-associated cardiomyopathy is clinically similar to other causes of cardiomyopathy and, therefore, the diagnosis can be easily overlooked. We found a 13% point prevalence of Chagas disease in a sample of New York City immigrants with dilated cardiomyopathy.
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Cardiomyopathy, Dilated Chagas Cardiomyopathy Emigrants And Immigrants Female Humans Male Middle Aged Prevalence
• Source:
  Clin Infect Dis. 57(1):e7
• Pubmed ID:
  23537911
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10123391
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  New York City, NY
• Volume:
  57
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7ac43cbd9eba7ed589ce9a165b617e9402404bc234cab786a2ca7f2a468a9868
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/127528/cdc_127528_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 57.97 KB ]