MATERNAL TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI INFECTION, PREGNANCY OUTCOME, MORBIDITY, AND MORTALITY OF CONGENITALLY INFECTED AND NON-INFECTED NEWBORNS IN BOLIVIA
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- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 70 (2) , 201-209
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.201
Abstract
This work compares the results of two epidemiologic and clinical surveys on the consequences of maternal chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection. They were conducted in 1992–1994 and 1999–2001 in the same maternity clinic in Bolivia, a country highly endemic for infection with this parasite. In both surveys, the materno-fetal transmission of parasites occurred in 5-6% of the infected mothers. Maternal chronic T. cruzi infection had no effect on pregnancy outcome and health of newborns when there was no materno-fetal transmission of parasites. Comparisons between the older and the more recent surveys highlighted significant reductions in frequencies of symptomatic cases (from 54% to 45%), Apgar scores T. cruzi congenital infection, which remains a serious public health problem in this country.Keywords
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