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Maternal and infant death after probable vertical transmission of chikungunya v...
Oliveira, Rhaquel de Morais Alves Barbosa; Barreto, Francisca Kalline de Almeida; Maia, Ana Maria Peixoto Cabral; Gomes, Ileana PitombeiraBackground Chikungunya virus infection in neonates is relatively rare and can lead to death. Case presentation We report the occurrence of the first death of a mother and child after probable vertical transmission of chikungunya virus in Brazil. A 28-year-old pregnant woman with hypertension presented with symptoms compatible with an arboviral disease at 34 weeks’ gestation. She developed preeclampsia with seve...
Trinta anos de dengue no Ceará: história, contribuições para ciência e desafios...
Cavalcanti, Luciano Pamplona de Góes; Barreto, Francisca Kalline de Almeida; Oliveira, Rhaquel de Morais Alves Barbosa; Canuto, Ilana Frota PontesIntrodução: Embora os primeiros casos de dengue no estado do Ceará tenham ocorrido em 1986, há registros da presença do mosquito Aedes aegypti desde os anos de 1851/1852. Mesmo após 30 anos, a dengue permanece como um problema grave de saúde pública com epidemias cada vez mais frequentes. Objetivo: Resgatar, reunir e sintetizar a evidência científica produzida nos primeiros 30 anos de dengue no Ceará, contribui...
Aspectos entomológicos e epidemiológicos das epidemias de dengue em Fortaleza, ...
Oliveira, Rhaquel de Morais Alves Barbosa; Araújo, Fernanda Montenegro de Carvalho; Cavalcanti, Luciano Pamplona de GóesObjetivo : descrever os aspectos entomológicos e epidemiológicos das epidemias de dengue ocorridas em Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil, de 2001 a 2012. Métodos : estudo descritivo com dados dos Sistemas de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (Sinan), de Informações Hospitalares (SIH), do Programa de Febre Amarela e Dengue (2001-2009), do Programa Nacional de Controle da Dengue (2010-2012) e Levantamento Rápido do Índi...
Microcephaly in Infants, Ceará State, Brazil, 2015-2016
Cavalcanti, Luciano Pamplona de Góes; Ribeiro, Erlane Marques; Pessoa, André Luis Santos; Carvalho, Francisco Herlânio Costa; Martins Neto, ManoelIn late 2015, the Brazilian Ministry of Health officially announced the association between microcephaly in infants and Zika virus infection of the mother during pregnancy. We describe preliminary findings of this outbreak in Ceará, Northeast Brazil and it’s clinical characteristics in each medical speciality. We report epidemiological findings of 317 cases of microcephaly outbreak potentially associated with Z...
Diagnóstico laboratorial para o vírus dengue em líquido cefalorraquidiano : a d...
Araújo, Fernanda Montenegro de CarvalhoThe first cases of dengue fever in Ceará State occurred in August 1986. The disease has become endemic with a gradual increase in severe cases, some showing atypical manifestations, with involvement of the central nervous system (CNS). In order to study specific laboratory diagnosis of dengue in cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) samples aiming to implement the findings related to cases of neurological manifestations ...
Recognition of leptospirosis in dengue-suspected cases during dengue outbreak i...
Oliveira, Augusto César Aragão; Fontes, Raissa Matos; Praciano, Claudênia Costa; Araújo, Fernanda Montenegro de CarvalhoDengue fever frequently presents with non specific sy mptoms, making it difficult to be distinguished from other acute febrile illnesses, including leptospi rosis. Given this, serum samples from 82 patients with clinical features of dengue-like illness were ev aluated for dengue infection by IgM-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Negative samp...