First Documented Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection through Blood Transfusion in a Child with Sickle-Cell Disease in Belgium

• Sophie Blumental,

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium

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• Micheline Lambermont,

  Affiliation Service du Sang, Belgian Red Cross, Brussels, Belgium

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• Catherine Heijmans,

  Affiliation Hemato-oncology Department, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium

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• Marie-Pierre Rodenbach,

  Affiliation Service du Sang, Belgian Red Cross, Brussels, Belgium

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• Hanane El Kenz,

  Affiliation Service du Sang, Belgian Red Cross, Brussels, Belgium

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• Danièle Sondag,

  Affiliation Service du Sang, Belgian Red Cross, Brussels, Belgium

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• Emmanuel Bottieau ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Bottieau, Carine Truyens

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Carine Truyens

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Bottieau, Carine Truyens

  * E-mail: ctruyens@ulb.ac.be

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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