Journal of Neuroinfectious Diseases
Open Access

Case Report

First Brazilian Case of Peripheral Mononeuropathy Secondary to Infection Chikungunya Virus

Lucas Aguiar Alencar De Oliveira¹, Fernando Jacó Silva Moreira², Mariana Leite Pereira², Rayssa Fernandes De Souza Coelho², Allyson Coelho Ribeiro³, Augusto César Beserra Martins³, José Hugo Andrade Santos Dantas³, Isadora Almendra Costa Coelho Gayosoe Almendra³, Ítalo Araújo Rios Brandão³, July Lima Gomes³, Kamilla Gomes De Sales Souza³, Laysa Moura Cardoso Leal³, Luís Gustavo Silva Bacelar De Andrade³, Vanessa Nepomuceno Da Fonseca Meneses³, Luara Lis Barbosa Boson⁴, Adriana De Almeida Soares⁵ and Raimundo Pereira Da Silva Néto^6*

¹Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

²State University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

³Integral Differential Faculty, Facid/DeVry, Teresina, Brazil

⁴University Center Uninovafapi, Teresina, Brazil

⁵Center of Neurology and Headache of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

⁶Department of Neurology, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

*Corresponding Author:

Raimundo Pereira da Silva Néto
Department of Neurology
Federal University of Piauí
Avenida Frei Serafim, 2280, Centro, Teresina
PI64001-020, Brazil
Tel: + 55 863215-5696
E-mail: neurocefaleia@terra.com.br

Received date: July 12, 2017; Accepted date: July 28, 2017; Published date: July 31, 2017

Citation: De Oliveira LAA, Moreira FJS, Pereira ML, Coelho RFDS, Ribeiro AC, et al. (2017) First Brazilian Case of Peripheral Mononeuropathy Secondary to Infection Chikungunya Virus. J Neuroinfect Dis 8:256. doi:10.4172/2314-7326.1000256

Copyright: © 2017 De Oliveira LAA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Background: Chikungunya is an infection caused by an RNA-virus and transmitted from primates to humans by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. Usually, it causes fever, widespread exanthema, myalgia and severe diffuse joints pain but may present several complications, such as neurological manifestations.

Case presentation: We describe a case of a 38-year-old man with diagnostic confirmation of chikungunya virus infection based on the clinical manifestations of the disease and positivity of the serological tests. He has evolved with peripheral mononeuropathy confirmed by clinical examination and electroneuromyography.

Conclusion: Peripheral neuropathy may be a neurological complication of CHIKV infection and to the best of our knowledge this is the first Brazilian case of peripheral mononeuropathy secondary to CHIKV infection.