Chagas' disease diagnosis: evaluation of several tests in blood bank screening
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Transfusion
- Vol. 33 (10), 830-834
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1537-2995.1993.331094054620.x
Abstract
Blood transfusion is one of the principal routes of transmission of Chagas' disease, a major endemic disease in Latin America. Methods for blood screening are not accurate and may yield false results...Keywords
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