Causal or not: Applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly

EMBO Molecular Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 305-307

  Frank, Christina ^a   Faber, Mirko ^a   Stark, Klaus ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; INFANT MORTALITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROCEPHALY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIREMIA; VIRUS; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; BRAZIL; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POLYNESIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER;

BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROCEPHALY; POLYNESIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84960873686     PISSN: 17574676     EISSN: 17574684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/emmm.201506058     Document Type: Note

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