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A new insight into the definition of microcephaly in Zika congenital syndrome era

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2021
: This study aimed to compare the anthropometric measurements and body proportionalities of neonates born before the Zika virus epidemic with those born during this period. We compared 958 neonates born during the pre-Zika epidemic with 264 neonates born
Fabiana Cristina Lima da Silva Pastich Gonçalves, Marília de Carvalho Lima, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Laura Cunha Rodrigues, Wayner Vieira de Souza, Pedro Israel Cabral de Lira, Sophie Helena Eickmann, Thalia Velho Barreto Araújo   +9 more
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Socioeconomic disparities associated with symptomatic Zika virus infections in pregnancy and congenital microcephaly: A spatiotemporal analysis from Goiânia, Brazil (2016 to 2020).

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
The Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic, which was followed by an unprecedented outbreak of congenital microcephaly, emerged in Brazil unevenly, with apparent pockets of susceptibility.
Luiza Emylce Pela Rosado, Erika Carvalho de Aquino, Elizabeth Bailey Brickley, Divania Dias da Silva França, Fluvia Pereira Amorim Silva, Vinicius Lemes da Silva, Angela Ferreira Lopes, Marilia Dalva Turchi   +7 more
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ETIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD MICROCEPHALY: A SINGLE-CENTER RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

Malang Neurology Journal, 2022
Background: Microcephaly is a condition that causes a reduction in brain volume as well as cognitive and motor impairments. It can be seen alone or in conjunction with a variety of genetic disorders and environmental factors.
Deniz Güven, Didem Ardıçlı, Dilek Sarıcı   +2 more
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Microcephaly in Neurometabolic Diseases

Children, 2022
Neurometabolic disorders are an important group of diseases that mostly occur in neonates and infants. They are mainly due to the lack or dysfunction of an enzyme or cofactors necessary for a specific biochemical reaction, which leads to a deficiency of ...
Wiktoria Kempińska, Karolina Korta, Magdalena Marchaj, Justyna Paprocka   +3 more
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Congenital microcephaly unrelated to flavivirus exposure in coastal Kenya [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2019
Background: Zika virus (ZIKV) was first discovered in East Africa in 1947.  ZIKV has caused microcephaly in the Americas, but it is not known whether ZIKV is a cause of microcephaly in East Africa.
Hellen C. Barsosio, John N. Gitonga, Henry K. Karanja, Doris K. Nyamwaya, Donwilliams O. Omuoyo, Everlyn Kamau, Mainga M. Hamaluba, Joyce U. Nyiro, Barnes S. Kitsao, Amek Nyaguara, Stella Mwakio, Charles R. Newton, Rosemary Sang, Daniel Wright, Eduard J. Sanders, Anna C. Seale, Charles N. Agoti, James A. Berkley, Philip Bejon, George M. Warimwe   +19 more
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Baseline microcephaly prevalence in rural Guatemala: implications for neonatal screening for congenital Zika virus infection

The Lancet Global Health, 2017
Background: Microcephaly is the result of disturbance in early brain development and has various causes. Zika was identified in Central America in early 2015.
Anne-Marie Rick, MD, Gretchen Domek, MD, Maureen Cunningham, MD, Daniel Olson, MD, Molly Lamb, PhD, Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano, MPH, Gretchen Heinrichs, MD, Stephen Berman, MD, Edwin Asturias, MD   +8 more
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Geospatial modeling of microcephaly and zika virus spread patterns in Brazil.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Microcephaly and Zika Virus infection (ZIKV) were declared Public Health Emergencies of International Concern by the World Health Organization in 2016. Brazil was considered the epicenter of the outbreak.
Pedro Amaral, Lucas Resende de Carvalho, Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha, Núbia Cristina da Silva, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci   +4 more
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Research progress of the causal link between Zika virus and microcephaly

Global Health Journal, 2018
Zika virus (ZIKV) was an emergent flavivirus transmitted by Aedes genus mosquitoes and made an explosive outbreak in Latin America in 2015. A few months later, an obvious increase in the number of microcephaly neonates has been observed, which might be ...
Min Yan, Rongsheng Luan
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Emerging concepts involving inhibitory and activating RNA functionalization towards the understanding of microcephaly phenotypes and brain diseases in humans

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023
Microcephaly is characterized as a small head circumference, and is often accompanied by developmental disorders. Several candidate risk genes for this disease have been described, and mutations in non-coding regions are occasionally found in patients ...
Mayuri Tokunaga, Takuya Imamura
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Prevalence of Antibodies to Zika Virus in Mothers from Hawaii Who Delivered Babies with and without Microcephaly between 2009-2012.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen. ZIKV infection is linked to the development of severe fetal abnormalities that include spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, hydranencephaly, and microcephaly. ZIKV outbreaks have been recorded in the
Mukesh Kumar, Lauren Ching, Joshua Astern, Eunjung Lim, Alexander J Stokes, Marian Melish, Vivek R Nerurkar   +6 more
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