Back to Search
Start Over
Mayaro virus infection in French Guiana, a cross sectional study 2003-2019
- Source :
- Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2022, 99, pp.105243. ⟨10.1016/j.meegid.2022.105243⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2021
-
Abstract
- International audience; Mayaro Virus is an emerging arbovirus which can be responsible of important outbreaks in tropical regions. A retrospective study was performed in French Guiana, an ultraperipheral region of Europe in Amazonia. We identified 17 human cases between 2003 and 2019. The clinical and biological picture was close to Chikungunya with fever and arthralgia. One patient had acute meningo-encephalitis, and 4 had persistent arthralgia. Physicians should be aware of this virus, as imported cases in Europe have already occurred. AUTHOR SUMMARY: Latin America has experienced several epidemics of arboviruses in recent years, some known for a long time, such as the dengue virus, and others of more recent introduction such as the chikungunya or Zika viruses. There are other arboviruses for the moment more discreet which are rife with low noise in several countries of the continent, such as the Mayaro virus. This alphavirus, with a presentation similar to that of the chikungunya virus, is currently confined to transmission by forest mosquitoes, but its potential to be transmitted by coastal mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti, make it a potential candidate for a continent-wide epidemic. It therefore seems necessary to know this virus as well as possible in order to anticipate the occurrence of a possible new epidemic. We present here a both demographic and clinical study of this endemic arbovirus disease in French Guiana.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
viruses
MESH: Zika Virus
MESH: Chikungunya Fever
Mosquito Vectors
[SDV.BBM.BM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology
Microbiology
MESH: Arthralgia
MESH: Zika Virus Infection
MESH: Cross-Sectional Studies
[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases
Aedes
MESH: Arboviruses
parasitic diseases
MESH: French Guiana
Genetics
Animals
Humans
MESH: Animals
Molecular Biology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Retrospective Studies
[SDV.MHEP.ME] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases
[SDV.MP.VIR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology
[SDV.MHEP.ME]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Emerging diseases
MESH: Humans
Zika Virus Infection
virus diseases
MESH: Retrospective Studies
MESH: Chikungunya virus
[SDV.BBM.BM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology
MESH: Aedes
Zika Virus
Arthralgia
French Guiana
Infectious Diseases
Cross-Sectional Studies
[SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie
[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology
[SDV.MHEP.MI] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases
Chikungunya Fever
MESH: Mosquito Vectors
[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie
Chikungunya virus
Arboviruses
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15677257 and 15671348
- Volume :
- 99
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....96ff9624b02f57e6fde9d12bb37032ca