- Record: found
- Abstract: not found
- Article: not found
An Estimate of the Burden of Chagas Disease in the United States
September 2009
September 2009
There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Abstract
Chagas disease causes the highest burden of any parasitic disease in the Western hemisphere.
By applying published seroprevalence figures to immigrant populations, we estimate
that 300,167 individuals with Trypanosoma cruzi infection live in the United States,
with 30,000-45,000 cardiomyopathy cases and 63-315 congenital infections annually.
T. cruzi causes a substantial disease burden in the United States.