1. Chagas Disease Screening in Maternal Donors of Publicly Banked Umbilical Cord Blood, United States
- Author
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Joanne Kurtzberg, Jennifer Gilner, R. Phillips Heine, Jose Hernandez, and James M. Edwards
- Subjects
Microbiology (medical) ,Chagas disease ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Chagas Disease Screening in Maternal Donors of Publicly Banked Umbilical Cord Blood, United States ,Epidemiology ,Trypanosoma cruzi ,030231 tropical medicine ,vector-borne infections ,lcsh:Medicine ,Antibodies, Protozoan ,parasitic diseases ,Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ,Disease ,parasites ,Umbilical cord ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,Pregnancy ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,biology ,business.industry ,Obstetrics ,lcsh:R ,Dispatch ,Retrospective cohort study ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Fetal Blood ,vertical infection transmission ,Infectious Diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cord blood ,Immunology ,umbilical cord blood ,business ,Cohort study - Abstract
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.
- Published
- 2016