Mother-to-child transmission of Chagas' disease in North America: why don't we do more?

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Published in Matern Child Health J on June 30, 2007

Authors

Pierre Buekens1, Olivia Almendares, Yves Carlier, Eric Dumonteil, Mark Eberhard, Rubi Gamboa-Leon, Mark James, Nicolas Padilla, Dawn Wesson, Xu Xiong

Author Affiliations

1: School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2430, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA. pbuekens@tulane.edu

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