Zika Virus Infection Presenting with Postauricular Lymphadenopathy

مروری جامع بر عفونت ویروس زیکا

Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that is becoming a new global threat. Currently, serologic (ELISA) and molecular (RT-PCR) testing make the diagnosis of Zika virus infection. There is no specific drug available for Zika virus infection, and treatment is supportive based on reducing symptoms of disease. Protection against mosquito bites is the most effective way to prevent the infection...

Zika Virus Infection after Returning from Thailand

Zika virus infections imported to Italy: clinical, immunological and virological findings, and public health implications.

We report the first two cases of laboratory confirmed Zika virus (ZIKV) infections imported into Italy from French Polynesia. Both patients presented with low grade fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, myalgia, arthralgia, ankle oedema, and axillary and inguinal lymphadenopathy. One patient showed leukopenia with relative monocytosis and thrombocytopenia. The diagnosis was based on ZIKV seroconversi...

Zika virus infection complicated by Guillain-Barre syndrome--case report, French Polynesia, December 2013.

Zika fever, considered as an emerging disease of arboviral origin, because of its expanding geographic area, is known as a benign infection usually presenting as an influenza-like illness with cutaneous rash. So far, Zika virus infection has never led to hospitalisation. We describe the first case of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) occurring immediately after a Zika virus infection, during the cu...

Immunology in Zika Virus Infection and Disease

Further investigation of the role of each type of these cytokines during Zika virus infection is urgently needed. The dendritic cell (DC) is one of the main target cells during infection by various flaviviruses, for examples, DENV, WNV and presumably the most potent antigen-presenting cell (APC)s. Blood DCs of convalescent Zika-virus infection patients demonstrated similarly effective antigen c...