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Rodolfo Kölliker-Frers | Zendy; Iván Insúa | Zendy; Gabriela Razzitte | Zendy; Francisco Capani | Zendy

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Chagas disease prevalence in pregnant women: migration and risk of congenital transmission

Author(s) -

Rodolfo Kölliker-Frers,

Iván Insúa,

Gabriela Razzitte,

Francisco Capani

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.7118

Subject(s) - medicine , population , serology , transmission (telecommunications) , chagas disease , public health , demography , environmental health , epidemiology , latin americans , urbanization , tropical medicine , disease , immunology , biology , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , nursing , pathology , sociology , antibody , electrical engineering , engineering

Argentina has been a preferential target for Bolivian immigrants for decades. The relatively recent migratory flux includes Germany, France, the United States, Australia, Japan, and some Latin American countries. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to describe the prevalence of Chagas disease in pregnant women, analyzing the Bolivian-specific Chagas prevalence as the main contributor of migratory populations from Chagas disease-endemic areas to Buenos Aires city, Argentina, and to evaluate the impact of these migrant influxes on the process of the "urbanization" of the disease in reference hospital José Maria Ramos Mejia (JMRM).

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