Relationship between gestational Zika virus infection (ZIKV) and alterations in visual acuity and color perception in infants up to three years old

• Grant number: 16/14793-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: February 28, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Dora Selma Fix Ventura
• Grantee: Luiz Claudio Portnoi Baran
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/26818-2 - Development and implementation of visual evaluation methods: clinical applications and animal models, AP.TEM

Abstract

The Zika virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus, like the Dengue Virus and is also transmitted by de Aedes mosquito, specially the Aedes aegypti. Until 2007 there were no cases of ZIKV outside the african country, in that year, the however,infections in Yap Islande, in Micronesia, were reported. Between 2014 is end and february 2016, the virus already spread to 22 states of Brazilian Federation, with the recent confirmation that it can cause microcephalys. There is already reports of oftalmological damages caused by ZIKV, like anomalies in eye fundus and optic disk. There is also studies showing that Dengue virus, closely relatad to ZIKV, can cause maculopathy. Thus, the present study proposes an evaluation of the possible alterations in visual acuity and color perception in children with ages varying from 3 months old to 3 years old, whose mothers were infected by ZIKV, using, respectively, the Theller Acuity Cards and CCT Kids. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LIMA, DIEGO DA SILVA; PORTNOI BARAN, LUIZ CLAUDIO; HAMER, RUSSELL DAVID; DA COSTA, MARCELO FERNANDES; VIDAL, KALLENE SUMMER; DAMICO, FRANCISCO MAX; SALGUEIRO BARBONI, MIRELLA TELLES; RODRIGUES DE MATOS FRANCA, VALTENICE DE CASSIA; GOMES MARTINS, CRISTIANE MARIA; TABARES, HEYDI SEGUNDO; et al. Longitudinal visual acuity development in ZIKV-exposed children. JOURNAL OF AAPOS, v. 24, n. 1, FEB 2020. (14/26818-2, 16/22007-5, 16/14793-0, 13/05942-4, 16/24631-8, 17/16948-4)

PORTNOI BARAN, LUIZ CLAUDIO; LIMA, DIEGO DA SILVA; DA COSTA, MARCELO FERNANDES; TABARES, HEYDI SEGUNDO; DA SILVA, LEONARDO APARECIDO; DIAS, SARAH LEONARDO; ZIN, ANDREA; VENTURA, DORA FIX. Visual Acuity alterations in Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) children from Rio de Janeiro. INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, v. 61, n. 7, p. 3-pg., 2020-06-01. (14/26818-2, 16/24631-8, 16/14793-0, 16/22007-5, 16/04538-3)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BARAN, Luiz Claudio Portnoi. Relação entre a infecção gestacional por Zika vírus (ZIKV) e alterações na acuidade visual e desenvolvimento visual em bebês e crianças de duas coortes: Jundiaí e Rio de Janeiro. 2019. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) São Paulo.