Lesões cutâneas como únicas manifestações de reativação da infecção pelo Trypanosoma cruzi em receptora de rim por transplante
Open Access
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- case report
- Published by FapUNIFESP (SciELO) in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
- Vol. 30 (1) , 61-63
- https://doi.org/10.1590/s0037-86821997000100012
Abstract
We report a patient with chronic asymptomatic Chagas' disease that presented Trypanosoma cruzi reactivation after kidney transplantation and immune depression. The only clinical manifestation of the disease was ulcerative skin lesions, which is unusual in Chagas' disease.Keywords
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