Congenital Chikungunya Virus Infection after an Outbreak in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

• Main Authors: Priscila Pinheiro Ribeiro Lyra (Author), Gúbio Soares Campos (Author), Igor Dórea Bandeira (Author), Silvia Ines Sardi (Author), Lilian Ferreira de Moura Costa (Author), Flávia Rocha Santos (Author), Carlos Alexandre Santos Ribeiro (Author), Alena Maria Barreto Jardim (Author), Ana Cecília Travassos Santiago (Author), Patrícia Maria Ribeiro de Oliveira (Author), Lícia Maria Oliveira Moreira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract There is little information about the congenital chikungunya virus (CHIKV) transmission. We describe two cases of well-documented congenital CHIKV infection in Salvador-Brazil, where CHIKV has been identified since 2014. The outbreak in the city led to the clinical CHIKV diagnoses of both p...