Title
Enfermedad de Chagas en Perú: transmisión congénita.
Other title
Chagas disease in Peru: congenital transmission
Date Issued
01 January 2005
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Abstract
American Trypanosomosis is an important parasitic infection in Peru. Human cases, reservoirs and vectors have been showed in two known geographic areas in the endemic zones: southwestern and northern and northeastern regions of the country; however vectors belonging to the three genera of triatominae: Triatoma, Panstrongylus and Rhodnius have been collected in almost all the territory. The serological surveys in blood banks in the southwestern region is 2-6% and human cases found out of the endemic areas show the possibility of congenital cases. The study of the prevalence is starting. This preliminary study performed on 3000 pregnant of Arequipa shows serological positives in 22 (0.7%) and only a newborn positive at IgM. This result indicates a probable low rate of congenital transmission and necessary to perform more studies.
Start page
55
End page
57
Volume
38 Suppl 2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Epidemiología Pediatría Salud pública, Salud ambiental Enfermedades infecciosas Medicina tropical
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-33749155777
PubMed ID
Source
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
ISSN of the container
00378682
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