Publications

• 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)

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• 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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