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Lesões cutâneas como únicas manifestações de reativação da infecção pelo Trypanosoma cruzi em receptora de rim por transplante

We report a patient with chronic asymptomatic Chagas' disease that presented Trypanosoma cruzi reactivation after kidney transplantation and immune depression. The only clinical manifestation of the disease was ulcerative skin lesions, wich is unusual in Chagas' disease.

Chagas' disease; Kidney transplantation and Chagas' disease; Trypanosoma cruzi reactivation; Unusual presentation of Chagas' disease


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