Dias Nayra, Carvalho Bruna de, Nitz Nadjar, Hagström Luciana, Vital Tamires, Hecht Mariana
Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Biociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brasil.
Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2019 Feb 21;52:e20180069. doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0069-2018.
Chagas disease (CD), a neglected endemic disease in Latin America, has acquired new epidemiological characteristics with an increase in the importance of alternative transmission routes such as congenital transmission. We evaluated the scientific research on this subject.
We searched the Scielo, BVS, and PubMed databases from 2006 to 2017.
We identified a small number of published articles, mostly in journals with an impact factor less than 3.0. Studies on human congenital transmission of CD were carried out in only seven different countries.
Our data highlight the lack of research on congenital CD.
恰加斯病(CD)是拉丁美洲一种被忽视的地方病,随着诸如先天性传播等替代传播途径重要性的增加,它呈现出了新的流行病学特征。我们评估了关于该主题的科学研究。
我们检索了2006年至2017年的Scielo、BVS和PubMed数据库。
我们发现发表的文章数量较少,大多发表在影响因子小于3.0的期刊上。关于人类先天性恰加斯病传播的研究仅在七个不同国家开展。
我们的数据凸显了对先天性恰加斯病研究的匮乏。