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ChikDenMaZika Syndrome: the challenge of diagnosing arboviral infections in the midst of concurrent epidemics

2016; BioMed Central; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s12941-016-0157-x

1476-0711

Alberto Paniz‐Mondolfi, Alfonso J. Rodríguez‐Morales, Gabriela M. Blohm, Marilianna Márquez, Wilmer E. Villamil‐Gómez,

Malaria Research and Control

Arthropod-borne viruses are becoming and increasing threat worldwide, especially in the New World, which has recently witnessed an unprecedented outburst of Arboviral outbreaks [1–4], such as the recent and ongoing chikungunya (CHIKV) [1] and Zika (ZIKV) [2] epidemics throughout the Pacific and the Americas. These emerging viral infections are largely due to a number of factors such as climate change [5–7], ever-increasing trends towards urbanization and growing travel and commercial exchange activities [8–12]; which have led to a spillover of these pathogens from their naturally occurring sylvatic niches and reservoirs into susceptible urban settings and newly unexposed geographic areas [13–16].