Published in PLoS Negl Trop Dis on February 02, 2010
Chagas disease: "the new HIV/AIDS of the Americas". PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2012) 1.92
Reactivation of Chagas disease after a bone marrow transplant in Italy: first case report. Blood Transfus (2012) 1.46
First Documented Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection through Blood Transfusion in a Child with Sickle-Cell Disease in Belgium. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2015) 1.45
Chagas disease and transfusion medicine: a perspective from non-endemic countries. Blood Transfus (2015) 1.21
Between a bug and a hard place: Trypanosoma cruzi genetic diversity and the clinical outcomes of Chagas disease. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther (2015) 1.02
Validation of a rapid immunochromatographic assay for diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among Latin-American Migrants in Geneva, Switzerland. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.01
Prevalence of Chagas disease in Latin-American migrants living in Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2015) 1.00
Chagas disease among the Latin American adult population attending in a primary care center in Barcelona, Spain. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2011) 0.97
Health policies to control Chagas disease transmission in European countries. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2014) 0.90
Seroprevalence of Chagas infection in the donor population. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2012) 0.88
Serological and parasitological response in chronic Chagas patients 3 years after nifurtimox treatment. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 0.88
Epidemiology of Chagas disease in Europe: many calculations, little knowledge. Clin Res Cardiol (2013) 0.88
P-glycoprotein efflux pump plays an important role in Trypanosoma cruzi drug resistance. Parasitol Res (2013) 0.83
A global systematic review of Chagas disease prevalence among migrants. Acta Trop (2016) 0.81
Selective Testing of At-Risk Blood Donors for Trypanosoma cruzi and Plasmodium spp. in Switzerland. Transfus Med Hemother (2016) 0.80
Chagas disease screening among HIV-positive Latin American immigrants: an emerging problem. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2012) 0.80
Usefulness of real time PCR to quantify parasite load in serum samples from chronic Chagas disease patients. Parasit Vectors (2015) 0.80
Detection and Quantification of Viable and Nonviable Trypanosoma cruzi Parasites by a Propidium Monoazide Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2016) 0.75
Chagas disease: are we there yet? Blood Transfus (2015) 0.75
Cross-sectional, descriptive study of Chagas disease among citizens of Bolivian origin living in Munich, Germany. BMJ Open (2017) 0.75
Prevalence of chronic infections and susceptibility to measles and varicella-zoster virus in Latin American immigrants. Infect Dis Poverty (2016) 0.75
Interdisciplinary approach at the primary healthcare level for Bolivian immigrants with Chagas disease in the city of São Paulo. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2017) 0.75
Risk Factors and Screening for Trypanosoma cruzi Infection of Dutch Blood Donors. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
A Case of Possible Chagas Transmission by Blood Transfusion in Switzerland. Transfus Med Hemother (2016) 0.75
Serological based monitoring of a cohort of patients with chronic Chagas disease treated with benznidazole in a highly endemic area of northern Argentina. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz (2016) 0.75
The neglected tropical diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of disease burden and distribution and a roadmap for control and elimination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2008) 5.30
Evaluation and treatment of chagas disease in the United States: a systematic review. JAMA (2007) 5.22
The future of Chagas disease control. Trends Parasitol (2006) 4.65
Clinical and epidemiological aspects of Chagas disease. Lancet Infect Dis (2001) 4.13
Epidemiology of Chagas disease in non-endemic countries: the role of international migration. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz (2007) 3.51
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[Brazilian Consensus on Chagas disease]. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop (2005) 2.07
Prevalence and vertical transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among pregnant Latin American women attending 2 maternity clinics in Barcelona, Spain. Clin Infect Dis (2009) 1.78
Congenital transmission of Chagas disease in Latin American immigrants in Switzerland. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 1.64
Seroprevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in at-risk blood donors in Catalonia (Spain). Transfusion (2008) 1.64
Use of a rapid test on umbilical cord blood to screen for Trypanosoma cruzi infection in pregnant women in Argentina, Bolivia, Honduras, and Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2008) 1.64
Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi by heart transplantation. Clin Infect Dis (2009) 1.29
Integrate study of a Bolivian population infected by Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz (2002) 1.23
Chagas disease, France. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 1.23
[Clinical and radiological aspects of aperistalsis of the esophagus]. Rev Bras Gastroenterol (1961) 1.21
Chagas cardiomyopathy: Europe is not spared! Eur Heart J (2008) 1.12
Chagasic cardiomyopathy in immigrants from Latin America to Spain. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 1.10
Trypanosoma cruzi parasitemia in US blood donors with serologic evidence of infection. J Infect Dis (2008) 1.07
Prognostic impact of Chagas disease in the United States. Am Heart J (2008) 1.00
Cardiac involvement in African and American trypanosomiasis. Lancet Infect Dis (2008) 0.95
Chagas disease: moving towards global elimination. Lancet Infect Dis (2007) 0.95
Prevalence and epidemiological significance of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among Latin American immigrants in Berlin, Germany. Infection (1998) 0.95
The sero-prevalence of antibodies to trypanosoma cruzi in Latin American refugees and immigrants to Canada. J Immigr Minor Health (2007) 0.93
Chagas' disease: lessons from routine donation testing. Transfus Med (2009) 0.91
Prevention of blood-borne diseases in Bolivia, 1993-2002. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2008) 0.89
Chagas' disease may also be encountered in Europe. Eur Heart J (1996) 0.88
[Chagas disease in Switzerland: managing an emerging infection and interrupting its transmission]. Rev Med Suisse (2008) 0.85
Leishmaniasis worldwide and global estimates of its incidence. PLoS One (2012) 18.07
Eliminating human African trypanosomiasis: where do we stand and what comes next? PLoS Med (2008) 6.70
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Treatment of human African trypanosomiasis--present situation and needs for research and development. Lancet Infect Dis (2002) 3.73
Drug-induced long QT syndrome in injection drug users receiving methadone: high frequency in hospitalized patients and risk factors. Arch Intern Med (2006) 3.51
Options for field diagnosis of human african trypanosomiasis. Clin Microbiol Rev (2005) 3.12
Snake bite in South Asia: a review. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2010) 2.67
Impact of snake bites and determinants of fatal outcomes in southeastern Nepal. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2004) 2.42
Urbanisation and infectious diseases in a globalised world. Lancet Infect Dis (2011) 2.30
Longlasting insecticidal nets for prevention of Leishmania donovani infection in India and Nepal: paired cluster randomised trial. BMJ (2010) 2.30
International study to evaluate PCR methods for detection of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in blood samples from Chagas disease patients. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2011) 2.13
Obstructive sleep apnea and the metabolic syndrome in an elderly healthy population: the SYNAPSE cohort. Sleep Breath (2011) 2.12
Usefulness of ambulatory 7-day ECG monitoring for the detection of atrial fibrillation and flutter after acute stroke and transient ischemic attack. Stroke (2004) 2.11
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Congenital Chagas disease: recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and control of newborns, siblings and pregnant women. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2011) 1.92
Treatment of acute uncomplicated falciparum malaria with artemether-lumefantrine in nonimmune populations: a safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetic study. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2008) 1.83
Rapid diagnostic tests for neurological infections in central Africa. Lancet Infect Dis (2013) 1.82
Incidence of symptomatic and asymptomatic Leishmania donovani infections in high-endemic foci in India and Nepal: a prospective study. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2011) 1.67
Diagnostic accuracy of two rK39 antigen-based dipsticks and the formol gel test for rapid diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in northeastern Uganda. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.67
Congenital transmission of Chagas disease in Latin American immigrants in Switzerland. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 1.64
Language barriers between nurses and asylum seekers: their impact on symptom reporting and referral. Soc Sci Med (2003) 1.64
Vector control by insecticide-treated nets in the fight against visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent, what is the evidence? Trop Med Int Health (2008) 1.63
Human trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma evansi in India: the first case report. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2005) 1.62
Reduction of missed appointments at an urban primary care clinic: a randomised controlled study. BMC Fam Pract (2010) 1.62
Trypanosomiasis control, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1993-2003. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.58
Low prevalence of atrial fibrillation in asymptomatic adults in Geneva, Switzerland. Europace (2009) 1.58
A comparative study of the effectiveness of diagnostic tests for visceral leishmaniasis. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2004) 1.57
Gender differences in management and outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes: results on 20,290 patients from the AMIS Plus Registry. Heart (2007) 1.55
NECT is next: implementing the new drug combination therapy for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2010) 1.55
Improving communication between physicians and patients who speak a foreign language. Br J Gen Pract (2003) 1.50
Text-messaging to reduce missed appointment in a youth clinic: a randomised controlled trial. J Epidemiol Community Health (2013) 1.49
Risk factors for in-hospital mortality of visceral leishmaniasis patients in eastern Uganda. Trop Med Int Health (2009) 1.48
Cost-effectiveness of clopidogrel: seeing through the smoke. Med Decis Making (2008) 1.47
Travel case scenarios as a demonstration of risk assessment of VFR travelers: introduction to criteria and evidence-based definition and framework. J Travel Med (2010) 1.47
Undocumented migrants lack access to pregnancy care and prevention. BMC Public Health (2008) 1.47
Pulmonary tumor embolism: a rare cause of acute right heart failure with elevated D-dimers. J Thorac Oncol (2008) 1.45
The visiting friends or relatives traveler in the 21st century: time for a new definition. J Travel Med (2010) 1.45
Transportation noise and blood pressure in a population-based sample of adults. Environ Health Perspect (2011) 1.45
Impact of hypertension on the outcome of patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome. J Hypertens (2015) 1.44
Heart rate variability in association with frequent use of household sprays and scented products in SAPALDIA. Environ Health Perspect (2012) 1.42
Antimonial treatment of visceral leishmaniasis: are current in vitro susceptibility assays adequate for prognosis of in vivo therapy outcome? Microbes Infect (2007) 1.40
Prevalence of sexually transmissible pathogens in semen from asymptomatic male infertility patients with and without leukocytospermia. Fertil Steril (2007) 1.40
Effects of passive smoking on heart rate variability, heart rate and blood pressure: an observational study. Int J Epidemiol (2007) 1.40
Estimates of the duration of the early and late stage of gambiense sleeping sickness. BMC Infect Dis (2008) 1.39
Obesity-related autonomic nervous system disorders are best associated with body fat mass index, a new indicator. Int J Cardiol (2011) 1.38
Epidemiology of Leishmania donovani infection in high-transmission foci in Nepal. Trop Med Int Health (2010) 1.36
Automatic cardiac event recorders reveal paroxysmal atrial fibrillation after unexplained strokes or transient ischemic attacks. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol (2003) 1.35
1999-2009 Trends in prevalence, unawareness, treatment and control of hypertension in Geneva, Switzerland. PLoS One (2012) 1.35
Gene expression analysis of the mechanism of natural Sb(V) resistance in Leishmania donovani isolates from Nepal. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2005) 1.34
The epidemiology of Leishmania donovani infection in high transmission foci in India. Trop Med Int Health (2010) 1.30
Filariasis in travelers presenting to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2007) 1.26
Migrants as a major risk group for imported malaria in European countries. J Travel Med (2003) 1.25
Liposomal amphotericin B as a treatment for human leishmaniasis. Expert Opin Emerg Drugs (2012) 1.24
Tolerance and safety of nifurtimox in patients with chronic chagas disease. Clin Infect Dis (2010) 1.23
A DNA resequencing array for pathogenic mutation detection in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Hum Mutat (2008) 1.21
Frequent and prolonged asymptomatic episodes of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation revealed by automatic long-term event recorders in patients with a negative 24-hour Holter. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol (2002) 1.19
Multicenter EuroTravNet/GeoSentinel study of travel-related infectious diseases in Europe. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 1.19
Protection against snake bites by sleeping under a bed net in southeastern Nepal. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2007) 1.17
High prevalence of reduced fecundity in men with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2009) 1.17
Epidemiological dynamics of antimonial resistance in Leishmania donovani: genotyping reveals a polyclonal population structure among naturally-resistant clinical isolates from Nepal. Infect Genet Evol (2006) 1.17
Persistence of Leishmania donovani antibodies in past visceral leishmaniasis cases in India. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2010) 1.16
Heart rate variability in an ageing population and its association with lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factors: results of the SAPALDIA study. Europace (2006) 1.16
Acute and potentially life-threatening tropical diseases in western travelers--a GeoSentinel multicenter study, 1996-2011. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2013) 1.16
Regional variation in travel-related illness acquired in Africa, March 1997-May 2011. Emerg Infect Dis (2014) 1.15
Travel and migration associated infectious diseases morbidity in Europe, 2008. BMC Infect Dis (2010) 1.14
Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnea influences high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the elderly. Sleep Med (2009) 1.13
Prevalence of renal impairment and its association with cardiovascular risk factors in a general population: results of the Swiss SAPALDIA study. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2006) 1.13
Drug-induced long QT in adult psychiatric inpatients: the 5-year cross-sectional ECG Screening Outcome in Psychiatry study. Am J Psychiatry (2013) 1.13
Linking in vitro and in vivo survival of clinical Leishmania donovani strains. PLoS One (2010) 1.12
Persistent digestive disorders in the tropics: causative infectious pathogens and reference diagnostic tests. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 1.11
Premature atrial contractions in the general population: frequency and risk factors. Circulation (2012) 1.11
Chronic disease management in Sub-Saharan Africa: whose business is it? Int J Environ Res Public Health (2009) 1.11
Nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy for second-stage gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: Médecins Sans Frontières experience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 1.11
Illness in long-term travelers visiting GeoSentinel clinics. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 1.10
Accuracy of five algorithms to diagnose gambiense human African trypanosomiasis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2011) 1.09
Effectiveness of melarsoprol and eflornithine as first-line regimens for gambiense sleeping sickness in nine Médecins Sans Frontières programmes. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (2008) 1.09
Favre-Racouchot-like disease after radiation therapy. J Am Acad Dermatol (2003) 1.09
[Towards a single society for specialists in family medicine and specialists in general internal medicine in Switzerland?]. Rev Med Suisse (2008) 1.08
["The union has the power"!]. Rev Med Suisse (2008) 1.07
Oxidative stress and autonomic nervous system functions in restless legs syndrome. Eur J Clin Invest (2011) 1.07
Text-messaging versus telephone reminders to reduce missed appointments in an academic primary care clinic: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 1.05
A predictive score to identify hospitalized patients' risk of discharge to a post-acute care facility. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 1.05
Field validity, reproducibility and feasibility of diagnostic tests for visceral leishmaniasis in rural Nepal. Trop Med Int Health (2006) 1.04
Health status of returnees to Kosovo: do living conditions during asylum make a difference? Public Health (2006) 1.04
Relationship among the severity of sleep apnea syndrome, cardiac arrhythmias, and autonomic imbalance. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol (2003) 1.03
Challenges of controlling sleeping sickness in areas of violent conflict: experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Confl Health (2011) 1.03
Clinical presentation and treatment outcome of sleeping sickness in Sudanese pre-school children. Acta Trop (2006) 1.03
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies six new Loci for serum calcium concentrations. PLoS Genet (2013) 1.02
Dermatologic conditions of the ill returned traveler: an analysis from the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network. Int J Infect Dis (2008) 1.02
Atypical human infections by animal trypanosomes. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2013) 1.01
Validation of a rapid immunochromatographic assay for diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among Latin-American Migrants in Geneva, Switzerland. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.01