Laise Carolina França, Fabrícia Lima Fontes-Dantas, Diogo Gomes Garcia, Amanda Dutra de Araújo, João Paulo da Costa Gonçalves, Cláudia Cecília da Silva Rêgo, Elielson Veloso da Silva, Osvaldo José Moreira do Nascimento, Fernanda Cristina Rueda Lopes, Alice Laschuk Herlinger, Renato Santana de Aguiar, Orlando da Costa Ferreira Junior, Fernando Faria Andrade Figueira, Jorge Paes Barreto Marcondes de Souza, Joelma Freire De Mesquita, Soniza Vieira Alves-Leon
BACKGROUND: Evidence indicates a strong link between Zika virus (ZikV) and neurological complications. Acute myelitis, optic neuritis, polyneuropathy, and encephalomyelitis that mimic inflammatory idiopathic demyelination disorders (IIDD) after ZikV infection have been reported in Brazil. OBJECTIVE: The present study aims to investigate the possible occurrence of molecular mimicry between ZikV antigens and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) autoantigens, the most frequent IIDD of the central nervous system (CNS)...
April 2023: Arquivos de Neuro-psiquiatria