Exhaustive TORCH Pathogen Diagnostics Corroborate Zika Virus Etiology of Congenital Malformations in Northeastern Brazil

Exhaustive TORCH Pathogen Diagnostics Corroborate Zika Virus Etiology of Congenital Malformations in Northeastern Brazil

ABSTRACT The Latin American 2015–2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak was associated with an increase in microcephaly predominantly in northeastern Brazil. To comparatively investigate infectious causes of congenital malformations, we performed a nested case-control study in 32 mothers of cases of suspec...

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Main Authors: Andres Moreira-Soto, Renata Cabral, Celia Pedroso, Monika Eschbach-Bludau, Alexandra Rockstroh, Ludy Alexandra Vargas, Ignacio Postigo-Hidalgo, Estela Luz, Gilmara Souza Sampaio, Christian Drosten, Eduardo Martins Netto, Thomas Jaenisch, Sebastian Ulbert, Manoel Sarno, Carlos Brites, Jan Felix Drexler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-08-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
Brazil
TORCH
Zika virus
microcephaly
parturient
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00278-18

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00278-18

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