Congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two Brazilian human cases

Visceral leishmaniasis is a relevant public health problem worldwide. Most of the reported cases in Latin America are from Brazil. Herein we report two human cases of congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis in two patients who developed symptoms during pregnancy. The diagnosis was made by vi...

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Autores principales: Mescouto-Borges, Myrlena Regina Machado, Maués, Érika, Costa, Dorcas Lamounier, da Silva Pranchevicius, Maria Cristina, Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9427337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23453409
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2012.10.017
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Sumario:Visceral leishmaniasis is a relevant public health problem worldwide. Most of the reported cases in Latin America are from Brazil. Herein we report two human cases of congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis in two patients who developed symptoms during pregnancy. The diagnosis was made by visual examination of Leishmania parasites in bone marrow aspirates of the mothers and by detecting parasite kDNA in bone marrow samples of the newborn children using polymerase chain reaction.

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