title: An estimate of the burden of Chagas disease in the United States.
abstract: Chagas disease causes the highest burden of any parasitic disease in the Western hemisphere. By applying published seroprevalence figures to immigrant populations, we estimate that 300,167 individuals with Trypanosoma cruzi infection live in the United States, with 30,000-45,000 cardiomyopathy cases and 63-315 congenital infections annually. T. cruzi causes a substantial disease burden in the United States.
authors.affiliation: Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. CBern@cdc.gov <CBern@cdc.gov>
authors.forename: Caryn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bern
authors.forename: Susan P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan / Q000097:blood; D002598:Chagas Cardiomyopathy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000276:immunology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000913:Antibodies, Protozoan