[Five-year outcome of mother-to-child transmission of chikungunya virus]

B Boumahni; M Bintner

[Five-year outcome of mother-to-child transmission of chikungunya virus]

Med Trop (Mars). 2012 Mar:72 Spec No:94-6.

[Article in French]

Authors

B Boumahni¹, M Bintner

Affiliation

¹ Service de réanimation néonatale et pédiatrique, CHU, Groupe hospitalier Sud Réunion, Saint Pierre 97410, La Réunion. [email protected]

PMID: 22693938

Abstract

Chikungunya virus is an arbovirus (alphavirus) transmitted by Aedes albopictus in Reunion Island. A huge chikungunya outbreak swept Reunion Island in 2005- 2006. We report the first case of chikungunya neonatal infection and the 5-years outcome of the 18 neonates hospitalized in neonatal intensive care unit between June 2005 and March 2006.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Alphavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Alphavirus Infections / diagnostic imaging
Alphavirus Infections / therapy
Alphavirus Infections / transmission*
Chikungunya Fever
Chikungunya virus / physiology
Diseases in Twins / diagnostic imaging
Diseases in Twins / etiology
Female
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Newborn, Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Infant, Newborn, Diseases / etiology
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / diagnosis*
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / diagnostic imaging
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / therapy
Prognosis
Radiography
Time Factors
Twins