CHAGAS-DISEASE - FIRST CONGENITAL CASE-REPORT

This is the first report of a congenitally transmitted case of Chagas disease occurring in Mexico, in a febrile premature newborn girl with low birth weight, hepatosplenomegaly and pneumonitis. Tryganosoma cruz i blood infection was detected using both direct smears and concentrat ed blood preparations. The patient's mother had a positive serological reaction by two techniques for anti-T. Cruzi antibodies. Two years af ter anti-chagastic treatment, the child has had a normal evolution, he r serology is negative, and no abnormalities have been detected by ele ctrocardiography.