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| Title |
Urban Chagas disease in children and women in primary care centres in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Published in |
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, July 2015
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| DOI | 10.1590/0074-02760150107 |
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| Authors |
Guillermo Moscatelli, Ada Berenstein, Ana Tarlovsky, Susana Siniawski, Miguel Biancardi, Griselda Ballering, Samanta Moroni, Marta Schwarcz, Susana Hernández, Facundo García-Bournissen, Andrés Espejo Cozzi, Héctor Freilij, Jaime Altcheh |
| Abstract |
The primary objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of this disease in women of childbearing age and children treated at health centres in underserviced areas of the city of Buenos Aires. Demographic and Chagas disease status data were collected. Samples for Chagas disease serology were obtained on filter paper and the reactive results were confirmed with conventional samples. A total of 1,786 subjects were screened and 73 positive screening results were obtained: 17 were from children and 56 were from women. The Trypanosoma cruzi infection risk was greater in those individuals who had relatives with Chagas disease, who remember seeing kissing bugs, who were of Bolivian nationality or were born in the Argentine province of Santiago del Estero. The overall prevalence of Chagas disease was 4.08%. Due to migration, Chagas disease is currently predominantly urban. The observed prevalence requires health programme activities that are aimed at urban children and their mothers. Most children were infected congenitally, which reinforces the need for Chagas disease screening of all pregnant women and their babies in Argentina. The active search for new cases is important because the appropriate treatment in children has a high cure rate. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 87 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 87 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 14 | 16% |
| Researcher | 13 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 10% |
| Unspecified | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 14 | 16% |
| Unknown | 21 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 21% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 10% |
| Unspecified | 9 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 18% |
| Unknown | 24 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 February 2016.
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#19,947,956
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Outputs from Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
#1,137
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#187,672
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#11
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