Congenital Chagas Disease: Recommendations for Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of Newborns, Siblings and Pregnant Women
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1 Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2 Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 3 Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación de Endemo-epidemias, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4 Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Rio de la Plata y Lagerenza, Asunción, Paraguay, 5 Laboratório de Pesquisa da doença de Chagas, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade Federal de Goias, Goiania, Brazil, 6 Programa Nacional de Chagas (Ministerio de Salud Pública) y Servicio de Parasitologı́a y Chagas (Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7 Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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دوره 5 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2011