Tropical diseases and pregnancy: Narrative review

Abstract

Tropical diseases are diseases generally transmitted by vectors, predominant in regions where the habitat of insects is appropriate for their subsistence, the vulnerable population with the pregnancy condition does not escape from these pathologies, nor the possible implications on the product of pregnancy, for this reason, diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and Chagas are studied; their relationship with pregnancy, clinical management, most frequent complications, and fetal affectation in the morphological, intellectual and development of the fetus, to conclude with a differential diagnosis table where they could be categorized.