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No report on Zika virus infection in EBMT registry: Infectious Diseases Working Party statement

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Recently, Machado et al.1 reported on two patients infected with Zika virus (ZIKV) after HSCT in Brazil. The symptoms included fever, headache, exanthema, myalgia, and arthralgia. In comparison to cases of infections with dengue or chikungunya viruses, the course of the disease was mild, and no complications have occurred. To date, an additional four probable cases of ZIKV transmission through blood transfusion have been reported.2, 3, 4

With several recent outbreaks of ZIKV infection in various parts of the world, followed by an increased incidence of neurological consequences, such as microcephaly and other congenital neurological syndromes after vertical transmission from an infected mother to her foetus during pregnancy, and Guillain–Barre syndromes, this emerging infectious threat has also focused the attention of transplant physicians.5, 6

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  1. Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun, Collegium Medicum, Bydgoszcz, Poland

    J Styczynski

  2. EBMT Data Office, Leiden, The Netherlands

    J Hoek & N Knelange

  3. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Health Sciences, University of Genova, Ospedale Policlinco San Martino, Genova, Italy

    M Mikulska

  4. Department of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona, Italy

    S Cesaro

  5. Department of Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    M Aljurf

  6. Department of Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Medical University, Poznan, Poland

    L Gil

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Styczynski, J., Hoek, J., Knelange, N. et al. No report on Zika virus infection in EBMT registry: Infectious Diseases Working Party statement. Bone Marrow Transplant 52, 1345–1346 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2017.145

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