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. 2023 Feb 10;47:e34. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2023.34

TABLE 1. Complications and deaths from arbovirus infections, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Author, year

Type of study

Arbovirus

Population

Complications/deaths

Angelo et al., 2020

Ecological

DENV & ZIKV

1.9 million individuals

Inflammatory polyneuropathy

Araújo et al., 2018

Case–control

ZIKV

91 neonatal cases

Severe microcephaly, stillbirths with positive serology for ZIKV

Bertolotti et al., 2020

Prospective cohort

CHIKV

193 cases

Aggravating role of dehydration during the acute phase of chikungunya

Brasil et al., 2016

Cross-sectional

ZIKV

364 suspected cases

One patient with neurological symptoms of peripheral nerve involvement; one abortion

Chang et al., 2018

Cohort

CHIKV

500 individuals

Persistent joint pain reported by 123 people 20 months after infection

Couzigou et al., 2018

Cohort

CHIKV

Population of Martinique (Caribbean)

Of 509 cases, 200 reported persistent pain after 3 months of infection

De Lima et al., 2020

Cross-sectional

CHIKV

100 fatal cases of arbovirus infections

22% of fatal cases had CHIKV and DENV; 39 CHIKV cases had signs of neurological impairment

Einspieler et al., 2019

Cohort

ZIKV

444 children

Of 56 children exposed to ZIKV, 46 had congenital microcephaly

Freitas et al., 2019

Ecological

CHIKV

Jamaica (Caribbean)

2499 deaths positively related to the high incidence of chikungunya during the period evaluated

Frutuoso et al., 2020

Cross-sectional

CHIKV

5 850 cases registered with chikungunya and died

3135 deaths, with 21.4% of cases laboratory confirmed

Godaert et al., 2018

Cohort

CHIKV

385 patients > 64 years

35 deaths with seven prognostic factors associated with the outcome: cardiovascular disorders, respiratory infection, sensorimotor deficit, absence of musculoskeletal pain, history of alcoholism, digestive symptoms, and presence of confusion or delirium

Godaert et al., 2019

Cohort

CHIKV

268 patients positive for CHIKV

53 deaths, 4.6% of acute clinical cases, 19.0% of atypical cases, 19.2% of severe acute cases, and 23.5% of unclassifiable cases

Gregianini et al., 2017

Cross-sectional

CHIKV & ZIKV

1 276 suspected cases of arboviruses

Three conformed cases of congenital Zika syndrome

Hoen et al., 2018

Cohort

ZIKV

555 fetuses and children

28 premature or stillborn and 527 live births with congenital Zika syndrome

Kohler et al., 2018

Cross-sectional

CHIKV

31 individuals

50–69 years old; women developed disabling arthralgia

Mora-Salamanca et al., 2020

Ecological

CHIKV, DENV & ZIKV

Population of Colombia

The highest proportion of DALYs was caused by chronic complications of arboviruses

Oliveira et al., 2020

Ecological

CHIKV, DENV & ZIKV

12 130 550 DENV; 501 202 CHIKV cases

52% of dengue cases confirmed; 63% of chikungunya cases confirmed; 24% of the total cases evaluated were ZIKV

Paixão et al., 2015

Ecological

DENV

4 995 546 cases in Brazil (2001–2011)

Increase in the case fatality rate from dengue hemorrhagic fever in Brazil, with 3156 deaths recorded

Peters et al., 2018

Cohort

CHIKV

470 suspected cases

Arthralgia after 3 months of infection

Pinto et al., 2016

Cohort

DENV

105 459 reported cases

1605 cases of severe dengue with 61 deaths recorded

Pinto et al., 2019

Cross-sectional

CHIKV

Population of Fortaleza

Hospitalization and 269 deaths

Read et al., 2018

Cohort

ZIKV

7191 children

351 confirmed cases; 80 with chronic complications and 69 developing asthma

Santiago et al., 2019

Cross-sectional

DENV & ZIKV

1070 ZIKV; 312 DENV-2; and 260 DENV-3

1.7% of patients with ZIKV hospitalized, 50.6% and 43.8% of DENV-2 and DENV-3 cases, respectively, hospitalized, both for complications

Tomashek et al., 2017

Cohort

CHKIV & DENV

8996 individuals

46.7% of DENV cases hospitalized due to symptoms and severe forms of dengue

Vianna et al., 2019

Cohort

ZIKV

108 children

26 congenital Zika syndrome diagnoses: 18 microcephaly and 16 epilepsy

DENV, dengue virus; ZIKV; Zika virus, CHIKV, chikungunya virus; DALY, disability-adjusted life year.

Source: Prepared by authors from studies retrieved.