ChikDenMaZika Syndrome: the challenge of diagnosing arboviral infections in the midst of concurrent epidemics
Alberto Paniz‐Mondolfia b, Alfonso Javier Rodriguez-Moralesc d e f g h i j✉, Gabriela M. Blohmk l, Marilianna Márqueza, Wilmer E. Villamil‐Gómezg h m n o p q
- aDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Internacional, Barquisimeto, Venezuela
- bLaboratory of Biochemistry, Instituto de Biomedicina/IVSS, Caracas, Venezuela
- cColombian Collaborative Network on Zika (RECOLZIKA), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. arodriguezm@utp.edu.co
- dCommittee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología (ACIN), Bogotá, DC, Colombia. arodriguezm@utp.edu.co
- eOrganización Latinoamericana Para el Fomento de la Investigación en Salud (OLFIS), Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia. arodriguezm@utp.edu.co
- fPublic Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. arodriguezm@utp.edu.co
- gColombian Collaborative Network on Zika (RECOLZIKA), Pereira, Colombia
- hCommittee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología (ACIN), Bogotá, Colombia
- iOrganización Latinoamericana Para el Fomento de la Investigación en Salud (OLFIS), Bucaramanga, Colombia
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Abstract
Arthropod-borne viruses are becoming and increasing threat worldwide, especially in the New World, which has recently witnessed an unprecedented outburst of Arboviral outbreaks [1–4], such as the recent and ongoing chikungunya (CHIKV) [1] and Zika (ZIKV) [2] epidemics throughout the Pacific and the Americas. These emerging viral infections are largely due to a number of factors such as climate change [5–7], ever-increasing trends towards urbanization and growing travel and commercial exchange activities [8–12]; which have led to a spillover of these pathogens from their naturally occurring sylvatic niches and reservoirs into susceptible urban settings and newly unexposed geographic areas [13–16].