Potential role of Dengue virus, Chikungunya virus and Zika virus in neurological disease

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Marcelo Adriano da Cunha e Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Costa, Carlos Henrique Nery, Linhares, Alexandre da Costa, Borba, Amariles de Sousa, Henriques, Daniele Freitas, Silva, Eliana Vieira Pinto da, Tavares Neto, Fernando, Batista, Francisca Miriane de Araújo, Guimarães, Herlon Clístenes Lima, Martins, Lívia Caricio, Monteiro, Talita Antônia Furtado, Cruz, Ana Cecília Ribeiro, Azevedo, Raimunda do Socorro da Silva, Vasconcelos, Pedro Fernando da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Digital do Instituto Evandro Chagas (Patuá)
• Texto Completo: http://patua.iec.gov.br//handle/iec/3523
• topic: Doenças do Sistema Nervoso / virologia; Infecções por Arbovirus / patologia; Vírus da Dengue / patogenicidade; Zika virus / patogenicidade; Vírus Chikungunya / patogenicidade; Mielite Transversa / patologia; Monitoramento Epidemiológico; Região Nordeste (BR); Piauí (PI)

This study showed that laboratory markers of recent infection by dengue, Zika or chikungunya arboviruses were detected in the biological samples of approximately one-third of patients with encephalitis, myelitis, encephalomyelitis or Guillain-Barré syndrome, in a surveillance programme in Piauí state, Brazil, between 2015-2016. Fever and myalgia had been associated with these cases. Since in non-tropical countries most infections or parainfectious diseases associated with the nervous system are attributed to herpesviruses, enteroviruses, and Campylobacter jejuni, the present findings indicate that in tropical countries, arboviruses may now play a more important role and reinforce the need for their surveillance and systematic investigation in the tropics.