Zika virus associated with microcephaly

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 374, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 951-958

  Mlakar, Jernej ^a   Korva, Misa ^b   Tul, Nataša ^a   Popović, Mara ^a   Poljšak Prijatelj, Mateja ^c   Mraz, Jerica ^a   Kolenc, Marko ^b   Rus, Katarina Resman ^d   Vipotnik, Tina Vesnaver ^b   Vodušek, Vesna Fabjan ^a   Vizjak, Alenka ^b   Pižem, Jože ^a   Petrovec, Miroslav ^b   Zupanc, Tatjana Avšic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Slovenia)

^c Institute of Radiology   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FETUS; FEVER; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MICROCEPHALY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PRURITUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRAVEL; ZIKA VIRUS; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MICROCEPHALY; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84959283609     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1600651     Document Type: Article

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