Baseline prevalence of birth defects associated with congenital zika virus infection – Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia, 2013-2014

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 219-222

  Cragan, Janet D ^a   Mai, Cara T ^a   Petersen, Emily E ^b   Liberman, Rebecca F ^c   Forestieri, Nina E ^d   Stevens, Alissa C ^a   Delaney, Augustina ^a   Dawson, April L ^a   Ellington, Sascha R ^b   Shapiro Mendoza, Carrie K ^b   Dunn, Julie E ^c   Higgins, Cathleen A ^c   Meyer, Robert E ^d   Williams, Tonya ^a   Polen, Kara N D ^a   Newsome, Kim ^a   Reynolds, Megan ^a   Isenburg, Jennifer ^a   Gilboa, Suzanne M ^a   Meaney Delman, Dana M ^e   Moore, Cynthia A ^a   Boyle, Coleen A ^a   Honein, Margaret A ^a   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MASSACHUSETTS; NEWBORN; NORTH CAROLINA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIROLOGY; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH CAROLINA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85015591649     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6608a4     Document Type: Article

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