How to Improve the Early Diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection: Relationship between Validated Conventional Diagnosis and Quantitative DNA Amplification in Congenitally Infected Children
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T. cruzi bloodstream parasite burden in newborns tested at their first month of age.
In T. cruzi infected children diagnosed in their first, second or third control, at 1, 6 months of age and around 1 year old, repectively, parasitemia was quantified by qPCR in the sample obtained at the 1st month of age. Significant differences were found in the median of the three groups assayed, by Kruskal–Wallis test using GraphPad Prism 5 software.