Chagas' Disease: Study of Congenital Transmission in Cases of Acute Maternal Infection

Overview

Journal Rev Soc Bras Med Trop

Specialty Tropical Medicine

Date 2005 Feb 18

PMID 15717095

Citations 14

Authors

Edgardo Moretti

Beatriz Basso

Irma Castro

Mario Carrizo Paez

Marcela Chaul

Gustavo Barbieri

Damaso Canal Feijoo

Maria Jose Sartori

Ruben Carrizo Paez

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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.

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