Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Résumé : International audience
Following of the emergence of Zika virus in Brazil in 2015, an epidemiological surveillance system was quickly implemented in the French overseas Territories of America (FTA) according to previous experience with dengue and chikungunya and has detected first cases of Zika. General practitioners and medical microbiologists were invited to report all clinically suspectedcases of Zika, laboratory investigations were systematically conducted (RT-PCR). On 18 December, the first autochthonous case of Zika virus infection was confirmed by RT-PCR on French Guiana and Martinique, indicating introduction of Zika virus inFTA. The viral circulation of Zika virus was then also confirmed on Guadeloupe and Saint-Martin. We report here early findings on 203 confirmed cases of Zika virus infection identified by RT-PCR or seroneutralisation on Martinique Island between 24 November 2015 and 20 January 2016. All cases were investigated. Common clinical signs were observed (maculopapularrash, arthralgia, fever, myalgia and conjunctival hyperaemia) among these patients, but the rash, the foundation of our case definition, may be absent in a significant proportion of patients (16%). These results are important for the implementation of a suspected case definition, the main tool for epidemiological surveillance, in territories that may be affected by ZIKV emergence, including Europe.
ISSN: 1025-496X

Droits : info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
inserm-01415215
http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-01415215
http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-01415215/document
http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-01415215/file/2016%2C%20Daudens-Vaysse%20-%20Zika%20emergence%20in%20the%20French%20Territories%20of%20America%20and%20description%20of%20first%20confirmed%20cases%20of%20Zika%20virus%20infection%20on%20Martinique%20.pdf
DOI : 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.28.30285

Éditeur(s) : Paris : A. Parent
Siècle(s) traité(s) : 19
Droits : Domaine public
Provenance : Collectivité territoriale de Martinique. Bibliothèque Schoelcher
Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/patrimon/SCH13265
SCH13265