Mortality among blood donors seropositive and seronegative for Chagas disease (1996–2000) in São Paulo, Brazil: A death certificate linkage study

• Ligia Capuani ,

  * E-mail: lcapuani@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine—University of Sao Paulo—FMUSP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-6805

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• Ana Luiza Bierrenbach,

  Affiliation Institute of Education and Research, Hospital Sirio Libanes, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Airlane Pereira Alencar,

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo—IME-USP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Alfredo Mendrone Jr.,

  Affiliation Fundação Pró-Sangue—Hemocenter of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• João Eduardo Ferreira,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo—IME-USP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Brian Custer,

  Affiliation Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Blood Systems Research Institute—BSRI, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro,

  Affiliation Hospital das Clínicas and School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais—UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Ester Cerdeira Sabino

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine and Tropical Medicine Institute—University of Sao Paulo—FMUSP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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