Severe abdominal pain in a patient with Zika infection: A case in Risaralda, Colombia
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2016-06Author
Cardona-Cardonaab, Andrés F.
Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso J.
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Zika virus (ZIKV), an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, transmitted by mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, especially Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, has recently emerged in tropical areas of Latin America, particularly in Brazil and Colombia, as a public health threat since May 2015, when significant expansion, imported, but particularly autochthonous cases in previously dengue (DENV)- and chikungunya (CHIKV)-endemic region begun to be reported and extended over the territories [1], [2].
Whilst neurological manifestations, including Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) have been mentioned in many reports in association with ZIKV and even with CHIKV [3], [4], abdominal pain has not been previously reported linked to this arboviral infection. We report the first RT-PCR confirmed and published herein case of ZIKV infection from Risaralda, Colombia, which presented fever, arthralgias, myalgias, neutropenia and severe abdominal pain.