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Provedor de dados: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
País: | Brazil
Título: | Incidence of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission through breastfeeding during acute experimental Chagas disease
Autores: | Martins,Luciamare Perinetti Alves; Castanho,Roberto Esteves Pires; Nogueira,Adriano Barbosa; Silva,Otavio Turolo da; Gusmão,Alex Silva de.
Data: | 2011-04-01
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Trypanosoma cruzi; Foods for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers; Chagas disease.
Resumo: | OBJECTIVE: To verify the incidence of T. cruzi transmission through breastfeeding during acute experimental Chagas' disease. METHODS: Fifteen female Swiss mice were mated and, after pregnancy confirmation, placed in individual cages. A few hours after birth, the females were inoculated with 0.1 mL of blood containing approximately 3 x 10(5) trypomastigote forms of Y strain of T. cruzi and continued breastfeeding for 25 days. RESULTS: In 142 offspring examined no infection through breast-feeding was observed. CONCLUSIONS: The low number of trypomastigote forms ingested by the newborn mice combined with biological and biochemical characteristics of blood trypomastigotes may explain the lack of transmission in this experiment.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702011000200004
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702011000200004
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.15 n.2 2011
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess