Suspected vertical transmission of Chagas disease caused by DTU TcIV in an infection probably transmitted orally, during anoutbreak in the Brazilian Amazo
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https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946202163048%20Keywords:
Acute Chagas disease, Child. Diagnosis, Trypanosoma cruzi, DTUs, Vertical transmission, Oral outbreakAbstract
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.
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Copyright (c) 2021 Vera Lúcia Teixeira de Freitas , Helena Rangel Esper , Erika Shimoda Nakanishi, Mariana Ramos Piotto, João Guilherme Pontes Lima Assy, Olívia Campos Pinheiro Berreta Berreta , Renato do Carmo Said, Aluisio Augusto Cotrim Segurado Segurado , Noemia Barbosa Carvalho Carvalho, Francisco Oscar de Siqueira França, Marta Heloísa Lopes
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