Not everything is Zika: congenital toxoplasmosis, still prevalent in Colombia?

Authors

  • Jorge L. Alvarado-Socarras Unidad de Neonatología, Departamento de Pediatría, Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia. Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia. Organización Latinoamericana para el Fomento de la Investigación en Salud (OLFIS). Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia. Red Colombiana de Colaboración en Zika y otros Arbovirus (RECOLZIKA). Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Médico pediatra neonatólogo
  • Keyla Meneses-Silvera Universidad de Santander. Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia. Médico residente de cuidado intensivo pediátrico
  • Andrea Carolina Zarate-Vergara Universidad de Santander. Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia. Médico residente de cuidado intensivo pediátrico
  • Carlos Guerrero-Gomez Departamento de Radiología, Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia. Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia. médico radiólogo
  • Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales Organización Latinoamericana para el Fomento de la Investigación en Salud (OLFIS). Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia. Red Colombiana de Colaboración en Zika y otros Arbovirus (RECOLZIKA). Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Salud Pública e Infección, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira. Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. médico tropicalista e investigador senior http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2192

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2017.342.2697

Keywords:

toxoplasmosis, congenital toxoplasmosis, cerebral toxoplasmosis, Zika virus, Colombia

Abstract

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.

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Published

2017-06-28

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Case Report

How to Cite

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Alvarado-Socarras JL, Meneses-Silvera K, Zarate-Vergara AC, Guerrero-Gomez C, Rodriguez-Morales AJ. Not everything is Zika: congenital toxoplasmosis, still prevalent in Colombia?. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica [Internet]. 2017 Jun. 28 [cited 2024 Mar. 29];34(2):332-6. Available from: https://rpmesp.ins.gob.pe/index.php/rpmesp/article/view/2697