Are maternal re-infections with Trypanosoma cruzi associated with higher morbidity and mortality of congenital Chagas disease?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 628-635

  Torrico, Faustino ^a   Vega, Cristina Alonso ^a   Suarez, Eduardo ^a   Tellez, Tatiana ^a   Brutus, Laurent ^b   Rodriguez, Patricia ^a   Torrico, Mary Cruz ^a   Schneider, Dominique ^b   Truyens, Carine ^c   Carlier, Yves ^c  

^a Centro Universitario de Medicina Tropical   (Bolivia)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Congenital Chagas disease; Maternal residence; Parasitaemia; Trypanosoma cruzi; Vectorial density

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITIC DISEASE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; VECTOR;

ANASARCA; ANEMIA; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CONGENITAL CHAGAS DISEASE; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INSECT BITE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PROGNOSIS; REDUVIIDAE; REINFECTION; RESIDENTIAL HOME; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; APGAR SCORE; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DISEASE VECTORS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MORBIDITY; MOTHERS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREGNANCY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

INSECTA; REDUVIIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33646238963     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01623.x     Document Type: Article

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