Congenital Chagas Disease: Updated Recommendations for Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-up of Newborns and Siblings, Girls, Women of Childbearing Age, and Pregnant Women

Overview

Journal PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Tropical Medicine

Date 2019 Oct 25

PMID 31647811

Citations 55

Authors

Yves Carlier

Jaime Altcheh

Andrea Angheben

Hector Freilij

Alejandro O Luquetti

Alejandro G Schijman

Manuel Segovia

Noemie Wagner

Pedro Albajar Vinas

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