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Zé-Zé L, Prata MB, Teixeira T, et al. Zika virus infections imported from Brazil to Portugal, 2015. IDCases. 2016;4:46-9doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2016.03.004.
Zé-Zé, L., Prata, M. B., Teixeira, T., Marques, N., Mondragão, A., Fernandes, R., Saraiva da Cunha, J., & Alves, M. J. (2016). Zika virus infections imported from Brazil to Portugal, 2015. IDCases, 446-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.03.004
Zé-Zé, L, et al. "Zika virus infections imported from Brazil to Portugal, 2015." IDCases vol. 4 (2016): 46-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.03.004
Zé-Zé L, Prata MB, Teixeira T, Marques N, Mondragão A, Fernandes R, Saraiva da Cunha J, Alves MJ. Zika virus infections imported from Brazil to Portugal, 2015. IDCases. 2016 Apr 07;4:46-9. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2016.03.004. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27134823; PMCID: PMC4833829.
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IDCases. 2016 Apr 07;4:46-9. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2016.03.004. eCollection 2016.

Zika virus infections imported from Brazil to Portugal, 2015.

IDCases

L Zé-Zé, M B Prata, T Teixeira, N Marques, A Mondragão, R Fernandes, J Saraiva da Cunha, M J Alves

Affiliations

  1. Centro de Estudos de Vectores e Doenças Infecciosas, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Águas de Moura, Portugal; Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, Campo Grande, Lisbon, Portugal.
  2. Serviço de Doenças Infecciosas, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
  3. Unidade de Doenças Infecciosas/Serviço de Medicina Interna, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
  4. Centro de Estudos de Vectores e Doenças Infecciosas, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Águas de Moura, Portugal.

PMID: 27134823 PMCID: PMC4833829 DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2016.03.004

Abstract

Zika virus is an emerging arbovirus transmitted by Aedes sp. mosquitoes like the Dengue and Chikungunya viruses. Zika virus was until recently considered a mild pathogenic mosquito-borne flavivirus with very few reported benign human infections. In 2007, an epidemic in Micronesia initiated the turnover in the epidemiological history of Zika virus and more recently, the potential association with congenital microcephaly cases in Brazil 2015, still under investigation, led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on February 1, 2016. Here, we present the clinical and laboratory aspects related to the first four imported human cases of Zika virus in Portugal from Brazil, and alert, regarding the high level of traveling between Portugal and Brazil, and the ongoing expansion of this virus in the Americas, for the threat for Zika virus introduction in Europe and the possible introduction to Madeira Island where Aedes aegypti is present.

Keywords: Arbovirus; Imported cases; Zika virus

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