Table 5.

Results of a single hemoculture in 101 T. cruzi-infected pregnant women stratified by gestational age in Goiania, Brazil, from 2006 to 2007

Gestational age	N	Mean maternal age (SD)	Positive hemocultures (%)	Cases with more than or equal to three of seven tubes (percent of cases with high parasitemia)
< 21 weeks	25	29.6 (1.4)	20 (80.0)	11/20 (55.0)
21–30 weeks	55	29.2 (0.75)	31 (56.4)	16/31 (51.6)
31 or more weeks	21	28.9 (1.2)	10 (47.6)	4/10 (40.0)
Total	101	29.3 (0.6)	61 (60.4)	31/61 (50.8)

SD = standard deviation.