American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) in a Canadian Immigrant Infant
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics
- Vol. 66 (2) , 266-268
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.66.2.266
Abstract
A case of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) is reported. A 13-month-old Mennonite girl who immigrated to Canada from Paraguay, died at the Children's Centre in Winnipeg from an acute myocarditis due to infection with Trypanosoma cruzi. This diagnosis should be considered when a patient from an endemic area presents with a clinical picture of myocarditis.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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