Congenital transmission of Chagas disease in the Honorio Delgado Arequipa Regional Hospital, Health Center and Regional Hospital La Joya Aplao

Abstract

We studied 220 women in labor and their newborn Regional Hospital Honorio Delgado Arequipa Aplao Hospital and Health Center Jewel. Of these samples, only 212 (... 96.36%) serological tests, complement fixation reaction (RFC) and indirect hemagglutination (Hal) for Chagas disease was performed. A 220 newborns were applied xenodiagnosis. A clinical and epidemiologic profile was used. We think that this exhibition is significant according to deliveries taken during the study period (19.61% Arequipa, La Joya Aplao 53.33% and 43.48%) and because we observed a high percentage of epidemiological history (61.9% parturients were born in endemic area, 69.57% presented background vector Sting). We obtained 6 cases of parturients v 4 newborns serological positive; seroreactivity correlation of the mother / newborn in 4 cases, either the RFC or Hal found. Cases of newborns through xenodiagnosis is not checked, since this reading was negative; we believe that seropositivity is by passage of antibodies.