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

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 cl...

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Published in:Biomédica
Main Authors: María Luz Gunturiz, Liliana Cortés, Ester Liliana Cuevas, Pablo Chaparro, Martha Lucía Ospina
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud 2018
Subjects:
toxoplasmosis congénita
virus Zika
virus chikungunya
anomalías congénitas
infección
cerebro
Medicine
R
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v38i0.3652
https://doaj.org/article/a02bbcc10c064b9397b6a0f0dd77505e
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Summary: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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