Breast milk as a possible route of vertical transmission of dengue virus?

Authors :: Barthel A
Gourinat AC
Cazorla C
Joubert C
Dupont-Rouzeyrol M
Descloux E
Source :: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America [Clin Infect Dis] 2013 Aug; Vol. 57 (3), pp. 415-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Apr 10.
Publication Year :: 2013
Abstract: We report a case of vertical transmission of dengue infection. The virus was detected and quantified by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction in sequential blood samples from mother and child as well as in breast milk, but not in cord blood. This case poses questions about the risk of breastfeeding transmission of dengue virus.

Subjects :: Blood virology
Dengue virology
Female
Humans
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Young Adult
Dengue transmission
Dengue Virus isolation & purification
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
Milk, Human virology

Language :: English
ISSN :: 1537-6591
Volume :: 57
Issue :: 3
Database :: MEDLINE
Journal :: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 23575200
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cit227