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REVISTA DA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE MEDICINA TROPICAL
Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages 505-506Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA MEDICINA TROPICAL
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822008000500014
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Chagas disease; Spontaneous cure; Longitudinal study
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An acute case of Chagas disease was studied in 1944, with clinical and laboratory follow-up until 2007, in Bambu, 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 of trypanosomiasis. She presented a positive thick blood smear, but never again showed serological and/or parasitological evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection, on several occasions. This patient never received any specific treatment and, to this day, she remains completely asymptomatic, with normal findings from clinical, electrocardiographic, X-ray and echocardiographic examinations.
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