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ReviewLancet regional health. Americas2025

Prenatal Chagas disease screening in Latin America: the current policy landscape and potential utility of an expanded maternal-familial

Mary K Lynn, Marvin Stanley Rodríguez Aquino, Carlos Alberto Buendía Rivas, Amaury Morales Landrove, Alexandra Manoella Portillo de Juarez, Roberto Aguila Cerón, Diana García López, Melissa S Nolan, El Salvador Congenital Chagas team

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Review in Lancet regional health. Americas, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Placental Barrier Breakdown Induced byInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  4. Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Mary K LynnDepartment of Epidemiology, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Marvin Stanley Rodríguez AquinoInstitute for Infectious Disease Translational Research, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Carlos Alberto Buendía RivasCenter of Research in Health and Development (CENSALUD), University of El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador.
Amaury Morales LandroveNational Directorate of Infectious Diseases, National Ministry of Health (MINSAL), San Salvador, El Salvador.
Alexandra Manoella Portillo de JuarezNational Directorate of Infectious Diseases, National Ministry of Health (MINSAL), San Salvador, El Salvador.
Roberto Aguila CerónMaternal-Perinatal Unit, Comprehensive Directorate of Maternal-Perinatal and Child Healthcare, National Ministry of Health (MINSAL), San Salvador, El Salvador.
Diana García LópezMaternal-Perinatal Unit, Comprehensive Directorate of Maternal-Perinatal and Child Healthcare, National Ministry of Health (MINSAL), San Salvador, El Salvador.
Melissa S NolanDepartment of Epidemiology, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
El Salvador Congenital Chagas team

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2018, revised World Health Organization guidance moved toward eliminating congenital Chagas disease (

Indexed as

Chagas disease eliminationChagas disease health policyCongenital Chagas diseaseEliminating mother-to-child transmission of Chagas diseaseEMTCT-PlusETMI-PlusPrenatal Chagas disease screening

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PMID40502726
PMCPMC12158603

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