Fatal congenital Chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report

The early diagnosis of congenital Chagas' disease is very important if infected newborns, whether symptomatic or not, are to receive adequate treatment. This paper describes the complications arising in the diagnosis of a newborn with fatal congenital Chagas' disease in Spain, a non-endemi...

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Autores principales: Flores-Chávez, María, Faez, Yamile, Olalla, José M, Cruz, Israel, Gárate, Teresa, Rodríguez, Mercedes, Blanc, Pilar, Cañavate, Carmen
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18992159
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-302
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author Flores-Chávez, María
Faez, Yamile
Olalla, José M
Cruz, Israel
Gárate, Teresa
Rodríguez, Mercedes
Blanc, Pilar
Cañavate, Carmen
author_facet Flores-Chávez, María
Faez, Yamile
Olalla, José M
Cruz, Israel
Gárate, Teresa
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description The early diagnosis of congenital Chagas' disease is very important if infected newborns, whether symptomatic or not, are to receive adequate treatment. This paper describes the complications arising in the diagnosis of a newborn with fatal congenital Chagas' disease in Spain, a non-endemic area where visceral leishmaniasis is present.
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spelling pubmed-25855802008-11-21 Fatal congenital Chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report Flores-Chávez, María Faez, Yamile Olalla, José M Cruz, Israel Gárate, Teresa Rodríguez, Mercedes Blanc, Pilar Cañavate, Carmen Cases J Case Report The early diagnosis of congenital Chagas' disease is very important if infected newborns, whether symptomatic or not, are to receive adequate treatment. This paper describes the complications arising in the diagnosis of a newborn with fatal congenital Chagas' disease in Spain, a non-endemic area where visceral leishmaniasis is present. BioMed Central 2008-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2585580/ /pubmed/18992159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-302 Text en Copyright © 2008 Flores-Chávez et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Flores-Chávez, María
Faez, Yamile
Olalla, José M
Cruz, Israel
Gárate, Teresa
Rodríguez, Mercedes
Blanc, Pilar
Cañavate, Carmen
Fatal congenital Chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report
title Fatal congenital Chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report
title_full Fatal congenital Chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report
title_fullStr Fatal congenital Chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Fatal congenital Chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report
title_short Fatal congenital Chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report
title_sort fatal congenital chagas' disease in a non-endemic area: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18992159
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-302
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