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HERNANDEZ ROJAS, Pablo E. Virus Zika infection in pregnancy. Salus [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.1, pp.52-57. ISSN 1316-7138.

Zika virus infection has spread in the Americas in the recent years. Venezuela has not escaped this emerging disease, and as we own a rich population of Aedes mosquitoes and also people without immunological memory to the virus makes us very susceptible to a wide distribution of the infection in a very short time, similar to what happened with other diseases spread by mosquitoes such as Dengue and Chikungunya. Pregnant women have an increased potential for infection and its transmission to their offspring due to their physiological changes in the immune system, and the vertical transmission of the virus poses a risk to the fetus, who has a higher chance to be affected mainly in the CNS, as recent publications claim. In this paper we summarize the problem, diagnosis data according to Venezuela and we resume guidelines to physicians in different fields, updated until March 2016. As Zika infection is a new emerging disease, published papers are few and non-conclusive about the true risk it implies to the pregnant women, her offspring and for the general population.

Palabras clave : Zika; pregnancy; congenital Zika syndrome; fetal ultrasound; obstetric; ZIKV.

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