Pregnant Women Hospitalized with Chikungunya Virus Infection, Colombia, 2015

In 2015 in Colombia, 60 pregnant women were hospitalized with chikungunya virus infections confirmed by reverse transcription PCR. Nine of these women required admission to the intensive care unit because of sepsis with hypoperfusion and organ dysfunction; these women met the criteria for severe acu...

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Main Authors: Maria Escobar, Albaro J. Nieto, Sara Loaiza-Osorio, Juan S. Barona, Fernando Rosso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/11/17-0480_article