Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in blood by PCR is associated with Chagas cardiomyopathy and disease severity |
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| Authors: | E. C. Sabino,A. L. Ribeiro,T. H Lee,C. L. Oliveira,A. B. Carneiro‐Proietti,A. P. Antunes,M. M. Menezes,B. M. Ianni,V. M. Salemi,L. Nastari,F. Fernandes,V. Sachdev,D. M. Carrick,X. Deng,D. Wright,T. T. Gon alez,E. L. Murphy,B. Custer,M.P. Busch |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Infectious Disease and Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of S?o Paulo, S?o Paulo, Brazil;2. Funda??o Pró‐Sangue Hemocentro de Sao Paulo, S?o Paulo, Brazil;3. Hospital das Clínicas and Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil;4. Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA;5. Campus Dona Lindu da Universidade Federal de S?o Jo?o del‐Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil;6. Hemominas and Faculdade da Saúde e Ecologia Humana–FASEH, Minas Gerais, Brazil;7. Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade de Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil;8. Cardiomyopathy Unit of the Heart Institute (InCor) da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de S?o Paulo, S?o Paulo, Brazil;9. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA;10. Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA;11. Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Keywords: | Trypanosoma cruzi PCR cardiomyopathy |
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