Eye anomalies: Seasonal variation and maternal viral infections

Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 317-322

  Busby, Araceli ^a   Dolk, Helen ^a   Armstrong, Ben ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; COXSACKIE VIRUS; EYE MALFORMATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROPHTHALMIA; NEWBORN; PARVOVIRUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANOPHTHALMOS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ENGLAND; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MICROPHTHALMOS; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; SEASONS;

EID: 17844378771     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000158817.43037.ab     Document Type: Article

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