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Chagas Disease After Organ Transplantation—United States, 2001
JAMA. 2002;287:1795-1796.
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MMWR. 2002;51:210-212
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Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Chagas disease following solid-organ transplantation has occurred in Latin America, where Chagas disease is endemic, but has not been reported previously in the United States. This report describes three cases in the United States of T. cruzi infection associated with transplantation of organs from a single donor. CDC and the U.S. organ transplantation organizations will consider whether to recommend screening of potential donors for T. cruzi infection and, if so, which donors to screen, how to screen, and what to do if the screening tests are positive.
On April 23, 2001, a physician notified CDC of an acute case of Chagas disease. A woman aged 37 years who had received cadaveric kidney and pancreas transplants on March 5 returned to the hospital on April 19 for evaluation of a febrile illness. On April . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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