TY - JOUR
T1 - No todo es Zika
T2 - Toxoplasmosis congénita, ¿aún prevalente en Colombia?
AU - Alvarado-Socarras, Jorge L.
AU - Meneses-Silvera, Keyla
AU - Zarate-Vergara, Andrea Carolina
AU - Guerrero-Gomez, Carlos
AU - Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Instituto Nacional de Salud. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Congenital toxoplasmosis continues to be a public health threat. Even existing guidelines, publicly known, its implementation and lack of appropriate interpretation of serological tests in pregnancy is often observed. This leds to failure in opportunities for positive and known interventions to decrease the fetal risk due to Toxoplasma gondii infection. We reported herein a case series, with variable neurological and systemic compromise (respiratory distress, hepatosplenomegaly, enterocolitis, brain calcifications, thrombocytopenia, ascites, shock), even fatal, calling for awareness about the fact that despite the Zika epidemics in 2015-2016 in Brazil, Colombia and other countries, precisely toxoplasmosis, is a differential diagnosis still prevalent in these territories, that can leds to severe consequences, with neurological disability and risk of ocular damage, even lately. Additionally, with varieties of T. gondii with more aggressive patterns in Latin America, which make worse those cases, including also a higher risk of death.
AB - Congenital toxoplasmosis continues to be a public health threat. Even existing guidelines, publicly known, its implementation and lack of appropriate interpretation of serological tests in pregnancy is often observed. This leds to failure in opportunities for positive and known interventions to decrease the fetal risk due to Toxoplasma gondii infection. We reported herein a case series, with variable neurological and systemic compromise (respiratory distress, hepatosplenomegaly, enterocolitis, brain calcifications, thrombocytopenia, ascites, shock), even fatal, calling for awareness about the fact that despite the Zika epidemics in 2015-2016 in Brazil, Colombia and other countries, precisely toxoplasmosis, is a differential diagnosis still prevalent in these territories, that can leds to severe consequences, with neurological disability and risk of ocular damage, even lately. Additionally, with varieties of T. gondii with more aggressive patterns in Latin America, which make worse those cases, including also a higher risk of death.
KW - Cerebral toxoplasmosis
KW - Colombia (source: MeSH NLM)
KW - Congenital toxoplasmosis
KW - Toxoplasmosis
KW - Zika virus
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U2 - 10.17843/rpmesp.2017.342.2697
DO - 10.17843/rpmesp.2017.342.2697
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 29177397
AN - SCOPUS:85028989553
SN - 1726-4634
VL - 34
SP - 332
EP - 336
JO - Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
JF - Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
IS - 2
ER -