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Tropical Medicine & International Health
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
tropical medicine and international health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1365-3156
pISSN - 1360-2276
DOI - 10.1111/tmi.12988
Subject(s) - tropical medicine , medicine , pathology
In a cross-sectional study of all Chagas disease patients diagnosed from 2005 to 2015 during blood donation at the Catalan Blood Bank, Chagas disease patients with positive S. stercoralis serology had a higher proportion of positive T. cruzi RT-PCR in peripheral blood than those with negative serology, which reflects the potential immunomodulatory effects of S. stercoralis in T. cruzi co-infected patients. 1436–1441