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The Unknown Risk of Vertical Transmission in Sleeping Sickness—A Literature Review

BACKGROUND: Children with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) present with a range of generally non-specific symptoms. Late diagnosis is frequent with often tragic outcomes. Trypanosomes can infect the foetus by crossing the placenta. Unequivocal cases of congenital infection that have been reported...

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Autores principales: Lindner, Andreas K., Priotto, Gerardo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3006128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21200416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000783