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Title: | Suspected vertical transmission of Chagas disease caused by DTU TcIV in an infection probably transmitted orally, during anoutbreak in the Brazilian Amazon |
Authors: | FREITAS, Vera Lucia Teixeira de; ESPER, Helena Rangel; NAKANISHI, Erika Shimoda; PIOTTO, Mariana Ramos; ASSY, Joao Guilherme Pontes Lima; BERRETA, Olivia Campos Pinheiro; SAID, Renato do Carmo; SEGURADO, Aluisio Augusto Cotrim; CARVALHO, Noemia Barbosa; FRANCA, Francisco Oscar de Siqueira; LOPES, Marta Heloisa |
Citation: | REVISTA DO INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL DE SAO PAULO, v.63, article ID e48, 5p, 2021 |
Abstract: | This study describes difficulties in the monitoring of a child born during an oral outbreak of Chagas disease, in which there are several indications that the transmission occurred through the congenital route: 1. the mother was in the third trimester of pregnancy when she was infected; 2. She presented high parasitemia at the time of delivery; 3. In both, the mother and her daughter, T cruzi was classified as DTU TcIV. The parasites were not found in the blood at birth and the infection was detected only three months later in an asymptomatic infant. As the mother and her child live in a highly endemic area, vector transmission could not be excluded during this period. |
Appears in Collections: | Artigos e Materiais de Revistas Científicas - FM/MIP Artigos e Materiais de Revistas Científicas - HC/ICHC Artigos e Materiais de Revistas Científicas - LIM/48 Artigos e Materiais de Revistas Científicas - LIM/49 |
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