title: [Congenital ChagaśDisease: epidemiology, laboratorial diagnosis, prognosis and treatment].
abstract: The authors review studies about epidemiology, clinical aspects and methods used in laboratorial diagnosis of congenital Chagas'disease, emphasizing the limitations in their specificity and sensibility, and suggest alternative methods to improve the accuracy and the quality of the laboratorial diagnosis of congenital Chagaśdisease, essential to an efficient treatment.
authors.affiliation: Depto. de Patologia Applicada, Legislação e Deontologia do Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Londrina.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Reiche
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Inouye
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bonametti
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Jankevicius