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Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Zika Virus–Associated Birth Defects, Costa Rica, 2016–2018

Adriana Benavides-LaraComments to Author , María de la Paz Barboza-Arguello, Mauricio González-Elizondo, Marcela Hernández-deMezerville, Helena Brenes-Chacón, Melissa Ramírez-Rojas, Catalina Ramírez-Hernández, Nereida Arjona-Ortegón, Shana Godfred-Cato, Diana Valencia, Cynthia A. Moore, and Alejandra Soriano-Fallas
Author affiliations: Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud, Cartago, Costa Rica (A. Benavides-Lara, M.P. Barboza-Arguello, M. González-Elizondo); Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social, San José, Costa Rica (M. Hernández-deMezerville, H. Brenes-Chacón, C. Ramírez-Hernández, N. Arjona Ortegón, A. Soriano-Fallas); Ministry of Health, San José (M. Ramírez-Rojas); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S. Godfred-Cato, D. Valencia, C.A. Moore)

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Key events involving ZBD surveillance, Costa Rica, March 2016–March 2018. In Costa Rica, laboratory testing using real-time reverse transcription PCR was implemented in late January 2016 (15–17). Although the first autochthonous case in Costa Rica was detected in a pregnant woman in February 2016 (16), a case was published in the United States about a traveler infected in December 2015 in Costa Rica (17). ZBD, Zika virus–associated birth defects.

Figure 1. Key events involving ZBD surveillance, Costa Rica, March 2016–March 2018. In Costa Rica, laboratory testing using real-time reverse transcription PCR was implemented in late January 2016 (15–17). Although the first autochthonous case in Costa Rica was detected in a pregnant woman in February 2016 (16), a case was published in the United States about a traveler infected in December 2015 in Costa Rica (17). ZBD, Zika virus–associated birth defects.

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