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Case Report: Multiorgan Involvement with Congenital Zika Syndrome [PDF]

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020
We report the case of an infant born with congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). During the largest Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in Peru, the mother presented with fever and rash that were confirmed to be due to ZIKV by real-time PCR. The infant was born with severe microcephaly.
Cachay Figueroa, Rodrigo Antonio, Schwalb Calderon, Alvaro, Watanabe, T., Guzman, D., Jaenisch, T., Guillén Pinto, Daniel, Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo   +6 more
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Mitigating the risk of Zika virus contamination of raw materials and cell lines in the manufacture of biologicals [PDF]

, 2018
Ensuring the virological safety of biologicals is challenging due to the risk of viral contamination of raw materials and cell banks, and exposure during in-process handling to known and/or emerging viral pathogens.
Armstrong, Alison A., Clayton, Reginald F., Donald, Claire L., Kohl, Alain, McKee, Marian L., Vasey, Douglas B., Zmurko, Joanna   +6 more
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Stigmas of congenital Zika syndrome: family perspectives

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2022
This article uses a socio-anthropological framework to explore the stigmas around interactions with children born with congenital Zika syndrome caused by the Zika virus epidemic in two Brazilian municipalities. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents and other relatives.
Martha Cristina Nunes Moreira, Corina Helena Figueira Mendes, Marcos Antonio Ferreira do Nascimento, Ana Paula Lopes de Melo, Maria do Socorro Veloso de Albuquerque, Hannah Kuper, Márcia Pinto, Loveday Penn-Kenkana, Maria Elizabeth Lopes Moreira   +8 more
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Zika Virus Infection during Pregnancy and Effects on Early Childhood Development, French Polynesia, 2013–2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
Congenital Zika virus syndrome consists of a large spectrum of neurologic abnormalities seen in infants infected with Zika virus in utero. However, little is known about the effects of Zika virus intrauterine infection on the neurocognitive development ...
Lorenzo Subissi, Timothée Dub, Marianne Besnard, Teheipuaura Mariteragi-Helle, Tuxuan Nhan, Delphine Lutringer-Magnin, Philippe Barboza, Céline Gurry, Pauline Brindel, Eric J. Nilles, David Baud, Angela Merianos, Didier Musso, Judith R. Glynn, Gilles Dupuis, Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau, Marine Giard, Henri-Pierre Mallet   +17 more
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Infants' General Movements Were Not Affected by Exposure to Maternal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Prenatal maternal infections may impair infant brain development. This study investigated the effect of maternal infections with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) during pregnancy on infant neurodevelopment by assessing general movements (GMs).
Kathrin Neumayr, Katharina Lippert, A. Sebastian Schroeder, Vinzenz G. Eck, Uta Tacke, Sevil Üzer, Andreas W. Flemmer, Mathias Klemme, Claudia Nussbaum, Nikolas Hesse, Sergi Pujades, Leander Behr, Sonja Strieker, Florian Heinen, Mirjam N. Landgraf   +14 more
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Zika, chikungunya and dengue: the causes and threats of new and re-emerging arboviral diseases. [PDF]

, 2017
The recent emergence and re-emergence of viral infections transmitted by vectors-Zika, chikungunya, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile, yellow fever and others-is a cause for international concern. Using as examples Zika, chikungunya and dengue, we
Paixão, Enny S, Rodrigues, Laura C, Teixeira, Maria Gloria   +2 more
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Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination at 3 Months in Infants at Risk for Congenital Infections: A Cohort Study

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction STORCH refers to a group of congenital infections (syphilis, toxoplasmosis, rubella, cytomegalovirus and herpes) that can impact the central nervous system. As clinical signs may not appear until several months or years after birth, the early detection of risk in STORCH‐exposed infants has been challenging, and the use of ...
Karen Cristine Oliveira de Azambuja, Amanda de Arguelho Oliveira Arguelho, Meyene Duque Weber, Lorrainy Marques da Silva Dutra, Tathiana Ghisi de Souza, Daniele Soares‐Marangoni   +5 more
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Zika fever and congenital Zika syndrome: An unexpected emerging arboviral disease [PDF]

Journal of Infection, 2016
Unlike its mosquito-borne relatives, such as dengue, West Nile, and Japanese encephalitis viruses, which can cause severe human diseases, Zika virus (ZIKV) has emerged from obscurity by its association with a suspected "congenital Zika syndrome", while causing asymptomatic or mild exanthematous febrile infections which are dengue- or rubella-like in ...
Yuen, KY, Cheng, VCC, Yip, CY, CHOI, KY, Chan, JFW   +4 more
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Clinical findings in congenital infection by Zika virus: a retrospective study in a reference hospital in Central-West Brazil

BMC Pediatrics, 2019
Background An increased number of congenital Zika virus infections with neurological and musculoskeletal malformations have been diagnosed worldwide, however, there are still several gaps in the knowledge about this infection, its associated mechanism ...
Cláudia de Paula Guimarães, Myrella Silveira Macedo, Maria Alves Barbosa, Solomar Martins Marques, Paulo Sucasas Costa, Ênio Chaves de Oliveira   +5 more
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Zika Virus Induces Apoptosis in Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells [PDF]

, 2020
Zika virus is a single-stranded positive sense RNA virus that attracted international attention in 2015 when an epidemic broke out in Brazil. This vector borne virus is transmitted by mosquitos and is especially concerning for pregnant women because the ...
Kraus, Madison, Muthuraj, Philma Glora, Natarajan, Sathish Kumar   +2 more
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