An unfolding tragedy of Chagas disease in North America

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013 Oct 31;7(10):e2300. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002300. eCollection 2013.

Authors

Peter J Hotez¹, Eric Dumonteil, Miguel Betancourt Cravioto, Maria Elena Bottazzi, Roberto Tapia-Conyer, Sheba Meymandi, Unni Karunakara, Isabela Ribeiro, Rachel M Cohen, Bernard Pecoul

Affiliation

¹ National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America ; James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Review

MeSH terms

Chagas Disease / epidemiology*
Female
Humans
Incidence
North America / epidemiology
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / epidemiology
Prevalence
Trypanosoma cruzi / isolation & purification*

Grants and funding

No direct funding was provided for this article.