Zika in Pernambuco: rewriting the first outbreak

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Faculdade Pernambucana de Saúde, Recife, Brazil¹  Brito, Cecilia Coelho Moraes de¹  Atanásio, Caio¹  Oliveira, Augusto César¹  Lima, Anton Saraiva¹  Brito, Carlos Alexandre Antunes de¹  Centro de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhães, Recife, Brazil¹  Asfora, Carolina¹  Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil¹  Rocha, Marilia¹  Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil¹  Albuquerque, Maria Fátima Militão¹  Matos, Júlio Dourado¹ 

关键词:  Zika;    Dengue;    Outbreak;    Arbovirus;    Surveillance;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0037-8682-0245-2016

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

INTRODUCTION: A Zika virus epidemic was registered in 2015 in Northeast Brazil. In the State of Pernambuco, thousands of classical cases transpired, and in the following months, neurological disturbances in adults and microcephaly in newborns emerged as complications. After the peak of the epidemic, the official system reported only four cases of Zika virus but over 100,000 cases of dengue virus. The vigilance system was unable to retrospectively estimate cases or to issue an alert to officially notified cases with possible inconsistence concerning specific arbovirosis diagnoses.

【 授权许可】

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