Zika virus intrauterine infections from the obstetrician’s perspective

update on zika virus infections

Zika Virus Infection after Returning from Thailand

Zika virus infections imported from Brazil to Portugal, 2015

Zika virus is an emerging arbovirus transmitted by Aedes sp. mosquitoes like the Dengue and Chikungunya viruses. Zika virus was until recently considered a mild pathogenic mosquito-borne flavivirus with very few reported benign human infections. In 2007, an epidemic in Micronesia initiated the turnover in the epidemiological history of Zika virus and more recently, the potential association wit...

Outbreak of Zika Virus Infections, Dominica, 2016

In February 2016, the World Health Organization declared the pandemic of Zika virus a public health emergency. On March 4, 2016, Dominica reported its first autochthonous Zika virus disease case; subsequently, 1,263 cases were reported. We describe the outbreak through November 2016, when the last known case was reported.

Zika virus and congenital malformations in perspective.

Zika virus (ZIKV) has been on the agenda of virologists since many years already. Laboratories dealing with imported tropical diseases consider ZIKV infection among the differential diagnoses in cases of fever after travel to tropical Africa and Asia. The confirmation of autochthonous cases of this Old World flavivirus infection in Brazil in May 2015 was however surprising [1]. Already one mont...