Zika virus infection in pregnancy, microcephaly, and maternal and fetal health: What we think, what we know, and what we think we know

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 26-32

  Alvarado, Maria Gabriela ^a   Schwartz, David A ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROCEPHALY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MICROCEPHALY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85008414267     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0382-RA     Document Type: Article

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