PEDIATRICS Vol. 66 No. 2 August 1980, pp. 266-268
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American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) in a Canadian Immigrant Infant

Lucy D. C. Montalvo-Hicks MD1, Cynthia L. Trevenen MD, BSc(Med), FRCP(C)1, and James Nixon Briggs MD, FRCP (London) (C)1

1 Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology, Children's Centre, Health Sciences Centre, and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

A case of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) is reported. A 13-month-old Mennonite girl who immigrated to Canada from Paraguay, died at the Children's Centre in Winnipeg from an acute myocarditis due to infection with Trypanosoma cruzi. This diagnosis should be considered when a patient from an endemic area presents with a clinical picture of myocarditis.

Submitted on August 3, 1979
Accepted on November 28, 1979