Perinatal chikungunya in twins

We report a case of vertically transmitted chikungunya infection in heterozygous twin neonates presenting as seizures, encephalopathy, midfacial hyperpigmentation, anemia, and thrombocytopenia. This could be considered as a rare cause of neonatal seizure and identification would help in appropriate...

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Autores principales: Karthiga, Vikneswari, Kommu, Peter Prasanth Kumar, Krishnan, Lalitha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5108125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27857791
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.193369
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spelling pubmed-51081252016-11-17 Perinatal chikungunya in twins Karthiga, Vikneswari Kommu, Peter Prasanth Kumar Krishnan, Lalitha J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report We report a case of vertically transmitted chikungunya infection in heterozygous twin neonates presenting as seizures, encephalopathy, midfacial hyperpigmentation, anemia, and thrombocytopenia. This could be considered as a rare cause of neonatal seizure and identification would help in appropriate management. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5108125/ /pubmed/27857791 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.193369 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Perinatal chikungunya in twins
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5108125/
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