Acute Paralysis and Neuro-inflammation in Jamaican Children during Zika Virus and Dengue Epidemics of 2016

Autor: R Melbourne-Chambers, CDC Christie, E Greenaway, R Bullock

Publikováno v: WIMJ Open, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 12-17 (2018)

Dengue, Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) are all transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and are currently circulating in Jamaica. Jamaica has been experiencing a ZIKV epidemic since February 2016. At the University Hospital of the W

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https://www.mona.uwi.edu/wimjopen/article/11533

Meningo-encephalo-myelitis in Children during the Zika Virus Epidemic in Grenada

Autor: R Melbourne-Chambers, Cdc Christie, B Nelson

Publikováno v: WIMJ Open, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 43-46 (2018)

Zika Virus is neurotropic. We report two children from the Caribbean Island of Grenada, a three-year-old with acute neuro-inflammation who had intractable seizures, meningo-encephalitis, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis and Zika Immunoglobulin M

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https://www.mona.uwi.edu/wimjopen/article/11772

Unravelling the Paediatric and Perinatal Zika Virus Epidemic through Population-based Research

Autor: C Giaquinto, Cdc Christie

Publikováno v: West Indian Medical Journal
WIMJ Open, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-4 (2018)

Zika virus epidemic now involves 72 countries, worldwide. Transmission is multimodal through mosquito bites and blood and body fluids. Zika virus causes Guillain Barre Syndrome syndrome and pregnancy complications including perinatal microcephaly. Di

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Chikungunya in Jamaica – Public Health Effects and Clinical Features in Children

Autor: R Melbourne-Chambers, T Fulford-Ramdial, J Ennevor, P Scott-Brown, N McNeil-Beecher, M Richards-Dawson, T James-Powell, S T Jackson, S Young-Peart, T Buchanan, Cdc Christie

Publikováno v: WIMJ Open, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 18-24 (2018)

Background: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) entered the Caribbean for the first time in 2013 and Jamaica experienced its maiden epidemic with Chikungunya Fever in 2014. We aimed to describe the public health effects and describe the clinical features in ch

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https://doi.org/10.7727/wimj.2016.529

Hospitalized children with SARS-CoV-2 infection and MIS-C in Jamaica: A dive into the first 15 months of the novel pandemic.

Autor: Berry CS; Department of Child and Adolescent Health, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica., Melbourne-Chambers RH; Department of Child and Adolescent Health, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.; Department of Child and Adolescent Health (Neurology), University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica., Harrison AN; Department of Child and Adolescent Health, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.; Department of Child and Adolescent Health (Adolescent Health), University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica., Anzinger JJ; Department of Microbiology (Virology), University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.; Global Virus Network, Baltimore, MD, United States., Gordon-Johnson KM; Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, Caribbean Regional Office, Kingston, Jamaica., Deyde VM; Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, Caribbean Regional Office, Kingston, Jamaica., Christie CDC; Department of Child and Adolescent Health, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.; Department of Child and Adolescent Health (Infectious Diseases), University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.

Publikováno v: Frontiers in pediatrics [Front Pediatr] 2022 Sep 07; Vol. 10, pp. 904788. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 07 (Print Publication: 2022).