Publications
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
- Congenital Transmission of Chagas Disease — Virginia, 2010 (July 6, 2012 / 61(26);477-479)
- Blood Donor Screening for Chagas Disease — United States, 2006–2007 (February 23, 2007 / 56(07); 141-143)
- Chagas Disease After Organ Transplantation — Los Angeles, California, 2006 (July 28, 2006 / 55(29);798-800)
- Chagas Disease After Organ Transplantation — United States, 2001 (March 15, 2002 / 51(10);210-212)
Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Infection of Kissing Bugs with Trypanosoma cruzi, Tucson, Arizona, USA (Vol. 16, No. 3–March 2010)
- Physician Awareness of Chagas Disease, USA (Vol. 16, No. 5 May 2010)
- Autochthonous Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, Louisiana (Vol. 13, No. 4 April 2007)
- Periurban Trypanosoma cruzi–infected Triatoma infestans, Arequipa, Peru (Vol. 12, No. 9 September 2006)
- Reinfestation Sources for Chagas Disease Vector, Triatoma infestans, Argentina (Vol. 12, No. 7 July 2006)
- Human Trypanosoma cruzi Infection and Seropositivity in Dogs, Mexico (Vol. 12, No. 4 April 2006)
Other Sources
- Prevalence of Chagas Disease in the Latin American-born Population of Los Angeles
Sheba K. Meymandi, Colin J. Forsyth, Jonathan Soverow, Salvador Hernandez, Daniel Sanchez, Susan P. Montgomery, and Mahmoud Traina
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2017 64:1182-1188. - Addressing the Challenges of Chagas Disease: An Emerging Health Concern in the United States
Morven S. Edwards, Kelly Stimpert, and Susan P. Montgomery
Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 2017 25:118-125 - Perinatal Screening for Chagas Disease in Southern Texas Morven S. Edwards, Marcia A. Rench, CharlesW. Todd, Nancy Czaicki, Francis J. Steurer, Caryn Bern, and Susan P. Montgomery
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2015; 4(1):67-70 - Chagas disease in Latin America: an epidemiological update based on 2010 estimates World Health Organization Weekly Epidemiological Record No. 6, 2015, 90, 33–44
- Neglected Parasitic Infections in the United States: Chagas
Susan P. Montgomery, Michelle C. Starr, Paul T. Cantey, Morven S. Edwards, and Sheba K.
Meymandi Disease Am J Trop Med Hyg 2014 90:814-818; doi:10.4269/ajtmh.13-0726 - Neglected parasitic infections: what every family physician needs to know.
Woodhall D, Jones JL, Cantey PT, Wilkins PP, Montgomery SP
Am Fam Physician. 2014 May 15;89(10):803-11 - Chagas disease in Latin American immigrants with dilated cardiomyopathy in New York City Kapelusznik L, Varela D, Montgomery SP, Shah AN, Steurer FJ, Rubinstein D, Caplivski D, Pinney SP, Turker D, Factor SH
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2013 Apr 12 [Epub ahead of print] - Acute Chagas disease in a returning traveler Carter YL, Juliano JJ, Montgomery SP, Qvarnstrom Y
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygine 2012; 87:1038-40 - Chagas Disease Often Asymptomatic But Can Be Life-threatening if Untreated Murray DL, Burke A
AAP News, May 1, 2012, Vol. 33 No. 5, p. 12 - The United States Trypanosoma cruzi Infection Study: Evidence for Vector-borne Transmission of the Parasite That Causes Chagas Disease Among United States Blood Donors
Cantey PT, Stramer SL, Townsend RL, Kamel H, Ofafa K, Todd CW, Currier M, Hand S, Varnado W, Dotson E, Hall C, Jett PL, Montgomery SP
Transfusion, March 8, 2012, Published Online - Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas’ disease in the United States
Bern C, Kjos S, Yabsley MJ, Montgomery SP
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2011, Vol. 24, pp. 655-681 - Antitrypanosomal Therapy for Chronic Chagas’ Disease
Bern, Caryn
New England Journal of Medicine, 2011, June 30, 2011, Vol. 364, pp. 2527-2534 - Screening and Treatment of Chagas Disease in Organ Transplant Recipients in the United States: Recommendations from the Chagas in Transplant Working Group
Chin-Hong, P. V., Schwartz, B. S., Bern, C., Montgomery, S. P., Kontak, S., Kubak, B., Morris, M. I., Nowicki, M., Wright, C. and Ison, M. G
American Journal of Transplantation, 14 MAR 2011, Vol. 11(4), pp. 672-680 - Survey of Obstetrician-Gynecologists in the United States About Chagas Disease
Verani J, Montgomery S, Schulkin J, Anderson B, Jones J
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010, Vol.83(4), pp. 891–895 - Chagas disease Rassi A, Jr., Rassi A, Marin-Neto JA
Lancet 2010;375:1388-402 - An Estimate of the Burden of Chagas Disease in the United States
Bern C, Montgomery SP
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2009, Vol. 49(5), pp. e52–e54 - Evaluation and Treatment of Chagas Disease in the United States: A Systematic Review.
Bern C, Montgomery SP, Herwaldt BL, Rassi A, Marin-Neto JA, Dantas RO, et al.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007, Vol. 298(18), pp. 2171-2181 - Trypanosoma cruzi in Los Angeles and Miami blood donors: impact of evolving donor demographics on seroprevalence and implications for transfusion transmission
Leiby DA, Herron RM, Read EJ, Lenes BA, Stumpf RJ
Transfusion, 2002, Vol. 42, pp. 549-555 - Laboratory-acquired parasitic infections from accidental exposures
Herwaldt BL
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2001, Vol. 14, pp. 659-688 - Use of polymerase chain reaction to diagnose the fifth reported US case of autochthonous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, in Tennessee, 1998
Herwaldt BL, Grijalva MJ, Newsome AL, McGhee CR, Powell MR, Nemec DG, et al. The Journal of Infectious Disease, 2000, Vol. 181, pp. 395-399 - American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas’ Disease) – A Tropical Disease Now in the United States
Kirchhoff LV
The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993, Vol. 329, pp. 639-644 - Chagas’ Heart Disease in the United States
Hagar JM, Rahimtoola SH
The New England Journal of Medicine, 1991, Vol. 325, pp. 763-768
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