La enfermedad de Chagas y la Leishmaniasis cutánea y mucocutánea son endémicas en el Paraguay y existen zonas del país donde coexisten ambas infecciones. Sabido es que existen reacciones cruzadas entre la infección por Trypanosoma cruzi y por Leishmaniasis sp, lo que constituye un problema para el d...

Anatomopathological studies were performed in 15 placentas of pregnant women who were seropositive for Chagas' disease. Nests of Trypanosoma cruzi amastigote s were found in the placenta and umbilical cord of three of them (20 percent). The parasitism was extensive in two of the cases, where the nests we...