Chikungunya-dengue co-infection during pregnancy requiring preterm Caesarean section: first case report from

Muhammad Abdur Rahim1, Shahana Zaman2, Nasreen Sultana3

  • 11 Assistant Professor, Nephrology, 130052 Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM) General Hospital Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Tropical Doctor
|December 14, 2017
PubMed

We report the first case of chikungunya-dengue co-infection during pregnancy requiring emergency Caesarean section (CS) because of fetal distress in a Bangladeshi primigravida. Though previously unreported, this situation may become increasingly common.