Case Report
In mid-October 2015, a 25-year-old previously
healthy European woman came to the Department
of Perinatology at the University Medical
Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia, because of assumed
fetal anomalies. Since December 2013, she had
lived and worked as a volunteer in Natal, the
capital of Rio Grande do Norte state. She had
become pregnant at the end of February 2015.
During the 13th week of gestation, she had become
ill with high fever, which was followed bysevere musculoskeletal and retroocular pain and
an itching, generalized maculopapular rash. Since
there was a ZIKV epidemic in the community,
infection with the virus was suspected, but no
virologic diagnostic testing was performed.
Ultrasonography that was performed at 14 and
20 weeks of gestation showed normal fetal
growth and anatomy.