title: Chagas disease. First congenital case report.
abstract: This is the first report of a congenitally transmitted case of Chagas disease occurring in Mexico, in a febrile premature newborn girl with low birth weight, hepatosplenomegaly and pneumonitis. Trypanosoma cruzi blood infection was detected using both direct smears and concentrated blood preparations. The patient's mother had a positive serological reaction by two techniques for anti-T. Cruzi antibodies. Two years after anti-chagastic treatment, the child has had a normal evolution, her serology is negative, and no abnormalities have been detected by electrocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Parasitología Diagnóstica, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, Secretaría de Salud, México, D.F.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guzmán-Bracho
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lahuerta
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Velasco-Castrejón
mesh_terms: D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000151:congenital*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases; D008800:Mexico