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. 2023 Apr 1;44(4):213-221.
doi: 10.1542/pir.2022-005857.

Congenital Chagas Disease

Rebecca J Chancey  1 , Morven S Edwards  2 , Susan P Montgomery  1
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Congenital Chagas Disease

Rebecca J Chancey et al. Pediatr Rev. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Giemsa stain of a thin blood smear showing Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote. (Reprinted from DPDx, www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/ diagnosis.html.)
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Algorithm for a stepwise approach to establishing the diagnosis of congenital Chagas disease in infants younger than 3 months (an infant born to a mother with suspected or confirmed Chagas disease or an infant with symptoms of congenital Chagas disease in an at-risk mother with serological status unknown). aA positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) should be confirmed by performing a second PCR before treatment to exclude contamination from maternal blood.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Algorithm for a stepwise approach to establishing the diagnosis of congenital Chagas disease in infants 3 months or older.
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