Investigation Of Neurological Problems Linked To Zika In Colombia

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Colombian doctors begin research on neurological sequelae of zika

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FEB 272016

 

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Neurologists Colombians began Saturday a survey to identify the consequences of zika virus in the human nervous system through a new network of study and research established at the University of the Valley in the city of Cali.

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The formation of this group of experts who work in Colombia and the United States, was announced during the XII Colombian Congress of Neurology, held in the last 25 and 26.

Ali, the director of the research center in myelitis Johns Hopkins University, Carlos Pardo Villamizar, and the dean of Health Sciences Faculty of the University Icesi of Cali, Yuri Takeuchi, gave details about the project.

"It's a collaborative study centered at the University of the Valley, where we conducted laboratory tests to establish the diagnosis of zika, they also joined Cúcuta universities, Santander, Antioquia, Barranquilla and Bogota, and neurologists colleagues interested in the research" he explained Pardo Efe.

Takeuchi pointed out that the study is focused on the consequences in adults who were related to the virus zika such as encephalitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome and myelitis, but there is also a group interested in the effects of the disease in pregnant women and their children .

The group, which was dubbed Study Neurovírus Emerging in the Americas (NEAS), began to collect data and analyze the most significant cases of zika in the country, among the 42,706 already confirmed by the National Institute of Health (NIH) of Colombia.

According to Pardo, yet the research group came to the hypothesis that the virus "may be causing an immune reaction that produces inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system or peripheral nervous system."

In addition, Brown said the NEAS also considering the zika "may be attacking directly or areas of the nervous system structures such as peripheral nerves, but it's still a part of the research."

However, the director of the research center in myelitis from Johns Hopkins said that if confirmed the direct relationship between this virus and neurological diseases, "the aggressiveness of zika is much greater than that of dengue and may be greater than that of chikungunya ".

"One of the observations is that the problems we assume that are associated with infection zika can produce more often than neurological dengue problems," he told Efe.

The virus zika is transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, the same vector of chikungunya and dengue.

The zika is currently present in much of Latin America and the Caribbean and, despite causing mild symptoms in most infected, concerned especially for his probable relationship to cases of microcephaly in newborns and neurological syndrome Guillain -Barre.

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