Pathology of congenital Zika syndrome in Brazil: a case series

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10047, 2016, Pages 898-904

  Martines, Roosecelis Brasil ^a   Bhatnagar, Julu ^a   de Oliveira Ramos, Ana Maria ^c,d   Davi, Helaine Pompeia Freire ^d   Iglezias, Silvia D'Andretta ^e   Kanamura, Cristina Takami ^e   Keating, M Kelly ^a   Hale, Gillian ^a   Silva Flannery, Luciana ^a   Muehlenbachs, Atis ^a   Ritter, Jana ^a   Gary, Joy ^a   Rollin, Dominique ^a   Goldsmith, Cynthia S ^a   Reagan Steiner, Sarah ^b   Ermias, Yokabed ^a   Suzuki, Tadaki ^f   Luz, Kleber G ^c   de Oliveira, Wanderson Kleber ^g   Lanciotti, Robert ^a   Lambert, Amy ^a   Shieh, Wun Ju ^a   Zaki, Sherif R ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^d State Service for Ascertaining Death in the State of Rio Grande do Norte   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^g MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAZIL; CASE STUDY; CHORION VILLUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVELOPE GENE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; ZIKA FEVER; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GLIA; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYNDROME; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VIROLOGY; ZIKA VIRUS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAZIL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NEUROGLIA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84978525616     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30883-2     Document Type: Article

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