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Zika Virus Infection and Microcephaly
A Task Force established by the Brazil Ministry of Health investigated the possible association of microcephaly with Zika virus infection during pregnancy and a registry for microcephaly cases among women suspected to have had Zika virus infection during pregnancy.
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Zika virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes with recent outbreaks in the Americas, and 84 countries and territories reporting active ZIKV transmission [1-3]. One of the greatest concerns regarding ZIKV infection is the risk of microcephaly. Microcephaly is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a head size less than 2 standard devia...
متن کاملMicrocephaly and Zika virus.
a a i o c w n c f t P s i s t t c e The original isolation of the Zika virus (ZIKV), a Flavivirus member of the Flaviviridae family, was obtained in 1947 from the blood of a febrile rhesus monkey exposed at the Zika forest near Lake Victoria, in the outskirts of Entebbe, the capital of Uganda.1 ZIKV was also isolated from wild mosquitoes in the same area and later periodic human febrile cases w...
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In early 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus, a flavivirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, was identified in northeast Brazil, an area where dengue virus was also circulating. By September, reports of an increase in the number of infants born with microcephaly in Zika virus-affected areas began to emerge, and Zika virus RNA was identified in the amniotic fluid of two women whose fetuses had been f...
متن کاملSurveillance of Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil
846 www.thelancet.com Vol 388 August 27, 2016 Zika virus has been spreading rapidly in Brazil and the Americas, with a sharp increase in the number of notifi ed microcephaly cases since September, 2015. Based on the high number of cases, and the association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly, WHO on Feb 1, 2016, declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Recently, a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Córdoba
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1853-0605,0014-6722
DOI: 10.31053/1853.0605.v75.n4.20293