%0 Journal Article
%T Incidence of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission through breastfeeding during acute experimental Chagas disease
%A Martins
%A Luciamare Perinetti Alves
%A Castanho
%A Roberto Esteves Pires
%A Nogueira
%A Adriano Barbosa
%A Silva
%A Otavio Turolo da
%A Gusm£żo
%A Alex Silva de
%J Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
%D 2011
%I Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
%R 10.1590/S1413-86702011000200004
%X 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 105 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.
%K trypanosoma cruzi
%K foods for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers
%K chagas disease.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1413-86702011000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en