The Zika epidemics and transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 560-563

  Silveira, Fernanda P ^a   Campos, Silvia V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

complications; donor derived infection; Guillain Barr syndrome; microcephaly; transplantation; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MICROCEPHALY; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRORBITAL PAIN; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; DONOR; NEWBORN; SYNDROME;

HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; SYNDROME; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84968807166     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: 15573117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2016.03.010     Document Type: Editorial

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