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Volume 28, Number 7—July 2022
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Updated Estimates and Mapping for Prevalence of Chagas Disease among Adults, United States

Amanda Irish, Jeffrey D. Whitman, Eva H. Clark, Rachel Marcus, and Caryn BernComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA (A. Irish, J.D. Whitman, C. Bern); Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA (E.H. Clark); Medstar Union Memorial Hospital and Latin American Society of Chagas, Washington, DC, USA (R. Marcus)

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Table 3

Estimated annual births to Trypanosoma cruzi–infected women and congenital infections, United States

Maternal age, y No. women infected Live births/1,000 women* No. births to infected women No. infected infants/y
Lower limit, 1% Upper limit, 5%
18–19 683 64.3 44 0 2
20–24 2,134 114.4 244 2 12
25–29 3,051 136.4 416 4 21
30–34 3,933 117.6 463 5 23
35–39 11,553 66.6 770 8 38
40–44 11,573 17.7 205 2 10
45–49
10,356
1.2
13
0
1
All ages 43,283 2,154 22 108

*Age-specific birth rates for all Hispanic women in 2017 multiplied by 1.22 to correct for higher birth rates among foreign-born Hispanic women (see Methods).

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