Author | Dias, João Carlos Pinto | |
Author | Dias, Emmanuel | |
Author | Martins Filho, Olindo Assis | |
Author | Avelar, Danielle Vitelli | |
Author | Correia, Dalmo | |
Author | Lages, Eliane | |
Author | Prata, Aluízio | |
Access date | 2022-08-04T11:38:21Z | |
Available date | 2022-08-04T11:38:21Z | |
Document date | 2008 | |
Citation | DIAS, João Carlos Pinto et al. Further evidence of spontaneous cure in human Chagas disease. Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop., v. 41, n. 5, p. 505-506, 2008. Doi. 10.1590/S0037-86822008000500014 | pt_BR |
ISSN | 0037-8682 | pt_BR |
URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/54390 | |
Language | eng | pt_BR |
Publisher | Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical | pt_BR |
Rights | open access | pt_BR |
Title | Further evidence of spontaneous cure in human Chagas disease | pt_BR |
Alternative title | Uma nova evidência de cura espontânea em doença de Chagas humana | pt_BR |
Type | Article | pt_BR |
DOI | 10.1590/S0037-86822008000500014 | |
Abstract | An acute case of Chagas disease was studied in 1944, with clinical and laboratory follow-up until 2007, in Bambu, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A five-year-old girl living in a rural hut that was highly infested with Triatoma infestans presented a febrile clinical condition compatible with the acute form of trypanosomiasis. She presented a positive thick blood smear, but never again showed serological and/or parasitological evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection, on several occasions. This patient never received any specific treatment and, to this day, she remains completely asymptomatic, with normal findings from clinical, electrocardiographic, X-ray and echocardiographic examinations | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisa René Rachou. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisa René Rachou. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisa René Rachou. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro. Faculdade de Medicina. Uberaba, MG, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro. Faculdade de Medicina. Uberaba, MG, Brasil | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro. Faculdade de Medicina. Uberaba, MG, Brasil | pt_BR |
Subject | Chagas disease | pt_BR |
Subject | Spontaneous cure | pt_BR |
Subject | Longitudinal study | pt_BR |