Zika Virus and Congenital Zika Syndrome: Special Issue Editorial. [PDF]
VirusesTen years have passed since the onset of the Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in Brazil, which began in 2015 and rapidly evolved into a global public health emergency [...]
da Silva Pone MV, Pone SM.
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Analyzing the ophthalmic red reflex test in children with congenital Zika syndrome [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de OftalmologiaObjective: To evaluate the red reflex test in children with congenital Zika syndrome in order to predict the occurrence of retinal lesion or optic nerve hypoplasia in these patients.
Marcia Beatriz Tartarella +8 more
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Two Infants with Presumed Congenital Zika Syndrome, Brownsville, Texas, USA, 2016–2017
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Since 2007, Zika virus has spread through the Pacific Islands and the Americas. Beginning in 2016, women in Brownsville, Texas, USA, were identified as possibly being exposed to Zika virus during pregnancy.
Ashley Howard +3 more
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Ocular abnormalities in congenital Zika syndrome: a case report, and review of the literature
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018 Background As the number of children with Zika virus-related complications grows, the long-term developmental trajectory and its effects on families are unknown.
Jade Gieseke Guevara +1 more
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Epileptic seizures in children with congenital Zika virus syndrome
Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno InfantilObjectives: to describe preliminary data referred to epileptic seizures and the probability of occurring these epileptic seizures in the infants' first months of life with congenital Zika virus (ZIKV) syndrome. Methods: concurrent cohort study including
Lucas Victor Alves +8 more
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Asymptomatic Prenatal Zika Virus Infection and Congenital Zika Syndrome [PDF]
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2018 Abstract To investigate to what extent asymptomatic vs symptomatic prenatal Zika virus infections contribute to birth defects, we identified 3 prospective and 8 retrospective studies. The ratio varied greatly in the retrospective studies, most likely due to recruitment and recall bias.
Enny S Paixao +2 more
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Host and viral mechanisms of congenital Zika syndrome [PDF]
Virulence, 2019 In 2015-2016, in the Americas, and especially in northeast Brazil, a significant number of cases of microcephaly and other congenital brain abnormalities were linked with an outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in pregnant women. While maternal symptoms of ZIKV are generally mild and self-limiting, clinical presentation in fetuses and newborns ...
Brooke Liang +3 more
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Speech-language-hearing therapists’ perception of orofacial myofunctional changes in subjects with congenital Zika syndrome [PDF]
Revista CEFAC, 2023 Purpose: to investigate the profile of speech-language-hearing therapists from Northeastern Brazil assisting children presented with congenital Zika syndrome and their perception of these children’s orofacial myofunctional aspects and speech-language ...
Paulo Naati Lopes Sobrinho +4 more
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Initial Description of the Presumed Congenital Zika Syndrome
American Journal of Public Health, 2016 Objectives. To provide an initial description of the congenital syndrome presumably associated with infection by Zika virus compared with other syndromes including congenital infections of established etiologies. Methods. We provide an overview of a published case series of 35 cases, a clinical series of 104 cases, and published and unpublished ...
Demócrito de Barros, Miranda-Filho +9 more
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Why is congenital Zika syndrome asymmetrically distributed among human populations? [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2018 Zika virus (ZIKV) is a health burden due to the severe neurological abnormalities that arise after congenital infection. Although multiple experimental studies have linked ZIKV with neural birth defects, the scientific community has not been able to ...
Jimena Barbeito-Andrés +2 more
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