2017-03-082017-03-081985-12MOTA, Eduardo; RIBEIRO FILHO, Raimundo; MENEZES, Greice Maria. Perdas fetais em uma área rural endémica para a doença de chagas no estado da Bahia. Revista de Patologia Tropical, Goiânia, v. 14, n.2, p. 131-140, jul./dez. 1985. Disponível em: < https://www.revistas.ufg.br/iptsp/article/view/21250/12466>.0301-0406http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/11514The maternal history of a group of women with a positive serologic test to T. cruzi (complement fixation test and indirect immunofluorescence test) and of 42 seronegatives women was studied, in order to describe the relationship between seroreactivity to T. cruzi and the frequency of fetal loss. Partícipants were residents of an endemic área of Chagas' disease in Bahia, Brazil. Seronegative women presented an overall rate of fetal loss of 93.3 per 1000 pregnancies (gestational age < 6 months) while seropositive women presented a rate of 105.3 per 1000 pregnancies. The age distribution of the rate of fetal loss revealed that seropositive women aged 15-24 years presented a frequency of fetal loss higher than seronegative women of the same age group.porAcesso AbertoArtigo