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Trypanosoma cruzi in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients, Houston, Texas, USA
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Trypanosoma cruzi in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy Patients, Houston, Texas, USA

Melissa S. Nolan, David Aguilar, Arunima Misra, Sarah M. Gunter, Tim Erickson, Rodion Gorchakov, Hilda Rivera, Susan P. Montgomery and Kristy O. Murray
Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.27(7), pp.1958-1960
01/07/2021
PMCID: 8237890
PMID: 34152952

Abstract

Immunology Infectious Diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
To investigate possible cardiac manifestations of Chagas disease, we tested 97 Latinx patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy in Houston, Texas, USA, for Trypanosoma cruzi infection. We noted a high prevalence of underdiagnosed infection and discrepant results in clinical diagnostic assays. Latinx cardiac patients in the United States would benefit from laboratory screening for T. cruzi infection.
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https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2707.203244View
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