Zika, dengue, and chikungunya co-infection in a pregnant woman from Colombia

Wilmer E Villamil-Gómez; Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales; Ana María Uribe-García; Edgardo González-Arismendy; Jaime E Castellanos; Eliana P Calvo; Melchor Álvarez-Mon; Didier Musso

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2016.07.017

Zika, dengue, and chikungunya co-infection in a pregnant woman from Colombia

Int J Infect Dis. 2016 Oct:51:135-138. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.07.017. Epub 2016 Aug 3.

Authors

Wilmer E Villamil-Gómez¹, Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales², Ana María Uribe-García³, Edgardo González-Arismendy³, Jaime E Castellanos⁴, Eliana P Calvo⁵, Melchor Álvarez-Mon⁶, Didier Musso⁷

Affiliations

¹ Grupo de Investigación Enfermedades Infecciosas y Control de Infecciones, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Doctorate in Tropical Medicine Program, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Universidad de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia.
² Grupo de Investigación Enfermedades Infecciosas y Control de Infecciones, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
³ Department of Gynecology, Clínica Santa María, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia.
⁴ Grupo de Virología, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, DC, Colombia. Electronic address: castellanosjaime@unbosque.edu.co.
⁵ Grupo de Virología, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, DC, Colombia.
⁶ Department of Immune System Diseases and Oncology, University Hospital "Príncipe de Asturias", Alcala University, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Unit of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institut Louis Malardé, Papeete, French Polynesia.

PMID: 27497951
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2016.07.017

Abstract

The clinical findings of a pregnant woman from Colombia with a triple co-infection caused by dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses are described. Weekly obstetric ultrasounds from 14.6 to 29 weeks of gestation were normal. She remains under follow-up and management according to the standard guidelines for the management of Zika virus-infected pregnant women.

Keywords: Chikungunya; Co-infection; Dengue; Pregnancy; Zika.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Chikungunya Fever / complications*
Chikungunya Fever / virology
Chikungunya virus / classification
Chikungunya virus / genetics
Chikungunya virus / isolation & purification
Coinfection
Colombia
Dengue / complications*
Dengue / virology
Dengue Virus / classification
Dengue Virus / genetics
Dengue Virus / isolation & purification
Female
Humans
Phylogeny
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / virology*
RNA, Viral / blood
Zika Virus / classification
Zika Virus / genetics
Zika Virus / isolation & purification
Zika Virus Infection / complications*
Zika Virus Infection / virology

Substances

RNA, Viral