Doença de Chagas congênita: epidemiologia, diagnóstico laboratorial, prognóstico e tratamento

Abstract

 

The authors review studies about epidemiology, clinical aspects and methods used in laboratorial diagnosis of congenital Chagas'disease, emphasizing the limitations in their specificity and sensibility, and suggest alternative methods to improve the accuracy and the quality of the laboratorial diagnosis of congenital Chagas'disease, essential to an efficient treatment.