ArticleTransfusion2022
Evidence of likely autochthonous Chagas disease in the southwestern United States: A case series of Trypanosoma cruzi seropositive blood donors.
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- Low risk for locally acquired Chagas disease in California: A review of human cases and triatomine submissions, 2013-2023.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Review
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- Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in the United States of America: A Short Review and Some Comments.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Transmission risk of Trypanosoma cruzi through blood donors in a third-level care hospital.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2025Article
- Chagas Disease: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Current cardiology reports · 2024Review
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- Using axenic and gnotobiotic insects to examine the role of different microbes on the development and reproduction of the kissing bug Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae).Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- Evidence of likely autochthonous Chagas disease in the southwestern United States: A case series of Trypanosoma cruzi seropositive blood donors.Transfusion · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundChagas disease is a parasitic infection that can insidiously cause non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. Given the largely silent nature of this progressive disease, asymptomatic blood donors pose potential blood transfusion risk. Blood donation screening has become an unintentional form of Chagas disease surveillance, with thousands of new cases identified since national surveillance was initiated in 2007. STUDY DESIGN AND
methodsWe recruited T. cruzi-positive blood donors identified from California and Arizona blood centers for confirmatory blood screening and assessment of lifetime infection risk.
resultsAmong eight suspected cases, we identified four confirmed US autochthonous infections. The current manuscript details the transmission sources, healthcare-seeking behaviors post-blood donation resulting, and clinical course of disease among persons without any history of travel to endemic Latin American countries. DISCUSSION: This manuscript presents four additional US-acquired Chagas disease cases and identifies an opportunity for blood centers to assist in confronting barriers surrounding Chagas disease in the US.
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