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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 4

US metropolitan areas with the highest estimated prevalence of Chagas disease

Location
 Trypanosoma cruzi–infected adults
 Prevalence in total adult population, %
 Prevalence in Latin America–born adult population, %
Top 10 in total number of T. cruzi–infected adults
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 44,768 0.43 1.97
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 28,304 0.18 1.89
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 17,745 0.38 3.85
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL 15,586 0.32 1.93
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX 14,175 0.29 1.60
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 11,070 0.33 1.71
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 10,931 0.15 1.51
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 9,887 0.19 1.37
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA 6,898 0.18 1.76
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
 5,730
 0.22
 1.54
Top 10 in overall T. cruzi prevalence
El Centro, CA 956 0.74 1.76
Laredo, TX 1,025 0.57 1.49
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 3,193 0.56 1.49
El Paso, TX 3,387 0.56 1.77
Brownsville-Harlingen, TX 1,564 0.54 1.66
Yuma, AZ 738 0.48 1.56
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 44,768 0.43 1.97
Salinas, CA 1,503 0.41 1.35
Merced, CA 756 0.40 1.46
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 17,745 0.38 3.85

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