Chagas' disease: study of congenital transmission in cases of acute maternal infection

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Authors

Edgardo Moretti · National Food Safety and Quality Service

Beatriz Basso · National Food Safety and Quality Service

Irma Castro · National Food Safety and Quality Service

Mario Carrizo Paez · Rawson-Neal Hospital

Marcela Chaul · Rawson-Neal Hospital

G Barbieri

Dámaso Canal Feijoo

M.J. Sartori

Abstract

We studied three pregnant women with acute chagasic infection. Two patients, infected in the third trimester of pregnancy, had uninfected children. The third patient, infected earlier, had an infected newborn. These results encourage research on risk factors of transmission and on medical decisions concerning pregnant women with acute Chagas' disease.

Topics & Keywords

Trypanosoma species research and implications

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volume 38, Issue 1, pp. 53-55

DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822005000100010

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