Chagas Disease: Implementation of Screening to Benefit Mother and Infant.

Clin Perinatol

Parasitic Diseases Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.

Published: June 2021

Pregnancy-based screening would identify women with Chagas disease, allowing for treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi-infected women and infants to prevent potentially fatal Chagas cardiomyopathy.

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