Congenital infectious disease

In early 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus, a flavivirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, was identified in northeast Brazil, an… (More)

Political repression and/or economic stagnation stimulated the flow of migration from the 17 Latin American countries endemic for… (More)

The aim of this study was to develop a real-time PCR technique to detect Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in blood of chagasic patients… (More)

BACKGROUND Preconceptional immunity against cytomegalovirus (CMV) provides only partial protection against intrauterine… (More)

BACKGROUND Women who acquire toxoplasmosis infection during pregnancy (in most cases detected through serological screening… (More)

BACKGROUND Most infants with congenital Toxoplasma gondii infection have no symptoms at birth, but many will have retinal disease… (More)

We studied 16 218 pregnant women from two income groups to determine the incidence of primary cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and… (More)

We studied the incidence of primary and recurrent cytomegalovirus infection in 3712 pregnant women--2698 of middle to high income… (More)

Over a thousand women with confirmed rubella infection at different stages of pregnancy were followed up prospectively. Two… (More)

Thirty-four patients with congenital cytomegalovirus infection who were symptomatic as newborns were followed in a special clinic… (More)