Neonatal dengue: apropos a case

Luis Ernesto Balcázar Rincón^a, Yunis Lourdes Ramírez Alcántara^b

^aProfesor asociado. Hospital General de Zona N.º 2. Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Chiapas. México .
^bProfesor titular de Medicina Familiar. Unidad de Medicina Familiar N.º 13. Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Chiapas. México.

Correspondence: LE Balcázar. E-mail: umqbalcazar@gmail.com

Reference of this article: Balcázar Rincón LE, Ramírez Alcántara YL. Neonatal dengue: apropos a case. Rev Pediatr Aten Primaria. 2016;18:e217-e221.

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Abstract

Dengue is an infectious disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and represents a public health problem in México; vertical transmission is rare and may occur at any stage of pregnancy so the diagnosis should be considered in children of mothers with suggestive picture of dengue.

Here we describe the case of a newborn who has compatible clinical findings with neonatal dengue, confirming the vertical transmission with NS1 antigen detection. Likewise, a brief review based on the cases reported in the scientific literature is made.

Keywords

● Dengue ● Newborn infant ● NS1 antigen ● Vertical transmission

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