Zika virus in Brazil and macular atrophy in a child with microcephaly

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10015, 2016, Pages 228-

  Ventura, Camila V ^a,b   Maia, Mauricio ^b   Bravo Filho, Vasco ^a,c   Góis, Adriana L ^a,c   Belfort, Rubens ^b  

^a Altino Ventura Foundation   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Hope   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTHRALGIA; BIOMICROSCOPY; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE FUNDUS; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MACULAR NEURORETINAL ATROPHY; MICROCEPHALY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; ATROPHY; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINAL DISEASES; VIROLOGY;

ATROPHY; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; RETINAL DISEASES; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84954369157     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00006-4     Document Type: Letter

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