Positive IgM for Zika virus in the cerebrospinal fluid of 30 neonates with microcephaly in Brazil

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10030, 2016, Pages 1811-1812

  Cordeiro, Marli Tenorio ^a   Pena, Lindomar J ^a   Brito, Carlos A ^b   Gil, Laura H ^a   Marques, Ernesto T ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAZIL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHIKUNGUNYA; CROSS REACTION; DENGUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROCEPHALY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENOME; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BRAZIL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROCEPHALY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84963813594     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30253-7     Document Type: Letter

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