@article {4031,
	title = {Transfusion-Associated Acute Chagas Disease Acquired in the United States.},
	journal = {//Ann Intern Med},
	volume = {111},
	year = {1989},
	month = {1989},
	pages = {849 - 851},
	address = {(C) 1989 American College of Physicians},
	abstract = {: Although a significant problem in Latin America (1), the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection by transfusion has not been unequivocally documented in the United States. We report a case of severe acute transfusion-acquired Chagas disease in a child with Hodgkin disease who had never travelled to an endemic area; however, she had received platelets from an asymptomatic Bolivian immigrant who had serologic evidence of T. cruzi infection., An 11-year-old white girl with Hodgkin disease who had been in remission since May 1987 after splenectomy, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy presented in April 1988 with a temperature of 38.3 [degrees]C. Her physical examination, (C) 1989 American College of Physicians},
	isbn = {0003-4819},
	author = {Grant, Irene and Gold, Jonathan and Wittner, Murray and MD, PhD and Tanowitz, Herbert and Nathan, Carl and Mayer, Klaus and Reich, Lillian and Wollner, Norma and Steinherz, Laurel and Ghavimi, Fereshteh and O{\textquoteright}Reilly, Richard and Armstrong, Donald}
}
