Table 1 Summary of follow-up of cases

Pregnant women with unknown follow-up

42

Miscarriages/stillbirths

3/42

7%

Left country before birth

4/42

10%

Newborns to follow-up

35/42

83%

Recovered newborns

31/35

89%

Infants controlled at 9m-old by paediatricians at hospitals

12/31

39%

Infants needed for foolow-up in Primary Health Centres

19/31

61%

Infants without correct follow-up in Primary Health Centres

14/19

74%

Controlled newborns

29/31

94%

Positive T. cruzi newborns

2/29

6.9%