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Chikungunya is an arbovirus of the Togaviridae family first isolated in Tanzania and Uganda in 1953. This infection has been developed with endemic and is transmitted by the Aedes mosquito. The mechanism of transmission from mother to child is not yet clear, but it has identified potential complications from vertical transmission, such as birth defects, stillbirths, intrauterine growth retardation and preterm deliveries. Then two cases of infants who developed cardiac arrhythmias in their first days of life, children of mothers with febrile syndrome in progress by Chikungunya are presented. Myocarditis vertical transmission Chikungunya and confirmed by polymerase chain reaction was diagnosed. Both patients received medical management including immunoglobulins, with clinical improvement without complications or dead.
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