Chagas Disease Screening in Maternal Donors of Publicly Banked Umbilical Cord Blood, United States

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Edwards, James M. ; Gilner, Jennifer B. ; Hernandez, Jose ; Kurtzberg, Joanne ; Heine, R. Phillips
• Description:
  To assess patterns of Chagas disease, we reviewed results of screening umbilical cord blood from a US public cord blood bank during 2007-2014. Nineteen maternal donors tested positive for Trypanosoma cruzi parasites (0.04%). Because perinatal transmission of Chagas disease is associated with substantial illness, targeted prenatal programs should screen for this disease.
• Subjects:
  Adult Blood Banks Blood Donors Chagas Disease Cohort Studies Female Fetal Blood Hemagglutination Tests Humans Pregnancy Radioimmunoprecipitation Assay Retrospective Studies Trypanosoma Cruzi

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 22(8):1468-1470.
• Pubmed ID:
  27433974
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4982190
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9231309d290d4badfd0bb179db07dd235bd04ad7dce6951b8251bcccf2d5e605
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40846/cdc_40846_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.20 MB ]