Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
Dispatch
Chagas Disease Screening in Maternal Donors of Publicly Banked Umbilical Cord Blood, United States
James M. Edwards
, Jennifer B. Gilner, Jose Hernandez, Joanne Kurtzberg, and R. Phillips Heine
, Jennifer B. Gilner, Jose Hernandez, Joanne Kurtzberg, and R. Phillips Heine
Table
Distribution by ethnicity of maternal cord blood donors with confirmed Chagas disease, United States, 2007–2014
| Ethnicity |
No. (%) patients with Chagas disease, n = 19 |
No. (%) screened donors |
| Caucasian | 8 (32) | 30,332 (52) |
| Hispanic | 7 (28) | 9,112 (16) |
| African American | 2 (8) | 10,277 (18) |
| Asian–Pacific Islander | 0 | 1,833 (3) |
| Other | 0 | 5,387 (10) |
| Unknown | 2 (8) | 854 (1) |
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