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metadata.dc.type: | Artigo de Periódico |
Title: | Congenital Chagas’s disease in an urban population: investigation of infected twins |
Other Titles: | Transactionso of the royal society of tropical medicine and hygiene |
Authors: | Hoff, Rodney Mott, Kenneth E. Milanesi, Maria Lucila Bittencourt, Achilea Candida Lisboa Schaer-Barbosa, Helenemarie |
metadata.dc.creator: | Hoff, Rodney Mott, Kenneth E. Milanesi, Maria Lucila Bittencourt, Achilea Candida Lisboa Schaer-Barbosa, Helenemarie |
Abstract: | In the Nordeste de Amaralina suburb of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 47 of 285 pregnant women surveyed had complement fixing antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi. At delivery T. cruzi was detected in one of 17 placentas from the sero-positive women. The off spring of this case were-premature twins and T. cruzi was detected in the oeriuheral blood of each before death. At autopsy ihe gastro-intestinal tract and urinary bladder of both were severely affected. Immunofluorescence tests on cord sera, including the single case with T. cruzi in the placenta, were negative for IgM antibodies to T. cruzi. The mother of the infected twins and three of her living children, who were born and have resided in the city, were also infected with T. cruzi. Although the children had visited an area endemic for Chagas’s disease for short periods, the mode of transmission in this family may have been transplacental. The value of the immunofluorescence test in the diagnosis of congenital Chagas’s disease is discussed. |
URI: | http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/5108 |
Issue Date: | 1978 |
Appears in Collections: | Artigo Publicado em Periódico (Faculdade de Medicina) |
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