This table contains numerical data sourced from surveillance of cases related to Zika Virus disease and Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). Entries began in the year 2015, Month 8, Epidemiological Week 32 and ended in 2017, Month 5, Epidemiological Week 22. They were made under the following headings: Zika D...
RESUMO O Zika vírus em humanos é transmitido pelo mosquito Aedes aegypti e se tornou uma emergência de saúde pública, conforme declaração da Organização Mundial de Saúde. Estudos relataram a associação do vírus com alterações auditivas em pacientes, pós-infecção. Este estudo foi concebi...
ABSTRACT This case report describes the retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings in a microcephalic infant with macular atrophy presumably caused by intrauterine Zika virus infection. OCT demonstrated atrophy of the outer retinal layers and choriocapillaris, including the outer nuclear layer a...
Zika virus (ZV) is an arbovirus transmitted by Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus. The neurotropic profile of this virus is known since 1952. The main finding related to ZV in America is microcephaly. Two hypotheses are tested on its involvement in the central nervous system: its neurotropic feature and the...
ABSTRACT The epidemics of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) infections have been considered the most important epidemiological occurrences in the Americas. The clinical picture of CHIKV infection is characterized by high fever, exanthema, myalgia, headaches, and arthralgia. Besides the typi...
Fiebre Chikungunya/complicaciones,
Fiebre Chikungunya/epidemiología,
Fiebre Chikungunya/fisiopatología,
Brotes de Enfermedades/estadística & datos numéricos,
Salud Global,
Síndrome de Guillain-Barré/virología,
Enfermedades del Sistema Nervioso/epidemiología,
Enfermedades del Sistema Nervioso/fisiopatología,
Enfermedades del Sistema Nervioso/virología,
Infección por el Virus Zika/complicaciones,
Infección por el Virus Zika/epidemiología,
Infección por el Virus Zika/fisiopatología
Abstract Zika virusis an arbovirus of the Flaviviridae family with two major strains, an Asian and an African strain. The main vectors involved in the transmission of Zika virus are the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. Despite its identification, discovered in 1947 in the Zika forest in Uga...
Resumo O presente estudo objetivou apresentar um panorama nacional e internacional atual dos estudos sobre o vírus Zika (ZIKV) e, ancorado no avanço deste conhecimento, refletir sobre planos de ação voltados para as crianças, famílias e equipes de saúde envolvidas. Neste sentido, o estudo propôs ...
Abstract: The Zika virus epidemic that started in Brazil in 2014 has spread to >30 countries and territories in Latin America, leading to a rapid rise in the incidence of microcephalic newborns and adults with neurological complications. At the beginning of the outbreak, little was known about Zika vi...
Abstract In November of 2015, the Ministry of Health of Brazil published an announcement confirming the relationship between Zika virus and the microcephaly outbreak in the Northeast, suggesting that infected pregnant women might have transmitted the virus to their fetuses. The objectives of this study w...
Aedes/virología,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Brotes de Enfermedades,
Microcefalia/epidemiología,
Microcefalia/virología,
Complicaciones Infecciosas del Embarazo/epidemiología,
Complicaciones Infecciosas del Embarazo/virología,
Prevalencia,
Infección por el Virus Zika/complicaciones,
Infección por el Virus Zika/epidemiología,
Infección por el Virus Zika/transmisión
