Further evidence of spontaneous cure in human Chagas disease Uma nova evidência de cura espontânea em doença de Chagas humana

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: João Carlos Pinto Dias, Emmanuel Dias, Olindo M. Filho, Danielle Vitelli-Avelar, Dalmo Correia, Eliane Lages, Aluízio Prata
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2008
• Subjects: Doença de Chagas; Cura espontânea; Estudo longitudinal; Chagas disease; Spontaneous cure; Longitudinal study; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Aguda
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822008000500014; https://doaj.org/article/8f84e9c68da94e1fa4f5ca1d2aaaf08e

An acute case of Chagas disease was studied in 1944, with clinical and laboratory follow-up until 2007, in Bambuí, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A five-year-old girl living in a rural hut that was highly infested with Triatoma infestans presented a febrile clinical condition compatible with the acute form o...