Microcephaly in Brazil: How to interpret reported numbers?

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10019, 2016, Pages 621-624

  Victora, Cesar Gomes ^a   Schuler Faccini, Lavinia ^b   Matijasevich, Alicia ^c   Ribeiro, Erlane ^d   Pessoa, André ^d   Barros, Fernando Celso ^a,e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; COMPUTER; FETUS WASTAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MICROCEPHALY; MOBILE PHONE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; CEPHALOMETRY; EPIDEMIC; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PROCEDURES; STANDARD; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BRAZIL; CEPHALOMETRY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROCEPHALY; NEONATAL SCREENING; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84957839161     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00273-7     Document Type: Note

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