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To the Editor: Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas' disease, is endemic in Latin America, with 16 million to 18 million people infected.¹ The parasite is transmitted naturally by a triatome insect, but it can also be transmitted by blood transfusion. Despite recent studies in the United States that identified T. cruzi–seropositive blood donors,^2,3 most of whom came from countries where the parasite is endemic, only three cases of transfusion-transmitted T. cruzi infection have been reported to date.³

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