Evidence of perinatal transmission of Zika virus, French Polynesia, December 2013 and February 2014.

By M. Besnard, S. Lastère, A. Teissier, Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau, D. Musso. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2014

836 citations recorded by the source corpus.

A Zika virus (ZIKAV) outbreak started in October 2013 in French Polynesia, South Pacific. We describe here the clinical and laboratory features of two mothers and their newborns who had ZIKAV infection as confirmed by ZIKAV RT-PCR performed on serum collected within four days post-delivery in date. The infants' infection most probably occurred by transplacental transmission or during delivery. Attention should be paid to ZIKAV-infected pregnant women and their newborns, as data on the impact on them are limited. .

Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f1765950fa61fc2e7da3e67d06f4906dd31d82bb