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Congenital cerebral toxoplasmosis, Zika and chikungunya virus infections: a case report

María Luz Gunturiz1, Liliana Cortés, Ester Liliana Cuevas, Pablo Chaparro, Martha Lucía Ospina.   

Abstract

We report a case of intrauterine infection by Toxoplasma gondii, Chikungunya and Zika viruses in a Colombian woman from the southern part of the country. The patient attended prenatal care in the second trimester of her pregnancy and she informed that in the first trimester she had presented with clinical symptoms compatible with Zika virus infection. Amniotic fluid PCR assays showed infection by T. gondii, chikungunya and Zika viruses. Diagnostic imaging showed fetal malformation of the central nervous system. At 29 weeks of gestation, pregnancy was terminated medically.

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Keywords:  Toxoplasmosis; congenital; Zika virus; Chikungunya virus; congenital abnormalities; infection; cerebrum

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Year:  2018        PMID: 30184357     DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.v38i0.3652

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Biomedica        ISSN: 0120-4157            Impact factor:   0.935


  4 in total

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Journal:  BMJ Glob Health       Date:  2020-05

Review 2.  Chikungunya in Infants and Children: Is Pathogenesis Increasing?

Authors:  Kelli L Barr; Vedana Vaidhyanathan
Journal:  Viruses       Date:  2019-03-23       Impact factor: 5.048

Review 3.  Chikungunya and Zika Viruses: Co-Circulation and the Interplay between Viral Proteins and Host Factors.

Authors:  Sineewanlaya Wichit; Nuttamonpat Gumpangseth; Rodolphe Hamel; Sakda Yainoy; Siwaret Arikit; Chuchard Punsawad; Dorothée Missé
Journal:  Pathogens       Date:  2021-04-09

4.  Zika virus infection as a cause of congenital brain abnormalities and Guillain-Barré syndrome: A living systematic review.

Authors:  Michel Jacques Counotte; Kaspar Walter Meili; Katayoun Taghavi; Guilherme Calvet; James Sejvar; Nicola Low
Journal:  F1000Res       Date:  2019-08-14
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