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
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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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author Mescouto-Borges, Myrlena Regina Machado
Maués, Érika
Costa, Dorcas Lamounier
da Silva Pranchevicius, Maria Cristina
Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra
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description 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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spelling pubmed-94273372022-09-01 Congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two Brazilian human cases Mescouto-Borges, Myrlena Regina Machado Maués, Érika Costa, Dorcas Lamounier da Silva Pranchevicius, Maria Cristina Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Braz J Infect Dis Case Report 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. Elsevier 2013-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9427337/ /pubmed/23453409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2012.10.017 Text en © 2013 Elsevier Editora Ltda. . https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra
Congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two Brazilian human cases
title Congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two Brazilian human cases
title_full Congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two Brazilian human cases
title_fullStr Congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two Brazilian human cases
title_full_unstemmed Congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two Brazilian human cases
title_short Congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two Brazilian human cases
title_sort congenitally transmitted visceral leishmaniasis: report of two brazilian human cases
topic Case Report
url 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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