Autopsy and postmortem studies are concordant: Pathology of zika virus infection is neurotropic in fetuses and infants with microcephaly following transplacental transmission

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 68-72

  Schwartz, David A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

AUTOPSY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICROCEPHALY; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85008400512     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0343-OA     Document Type: Article

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