Zika in Pernambuco: rewriting the first outbreak

Abstract INTRODUCTION: A Zika virus epidemic was registered in 2015 in Northeast Brazil. In the State of Pernambuco, thousands of classical cases transpired, and in the following months, neurological disturbances in adults and microcephaly in newborns emerged as complications. After the peak of the...

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Main Authors: Carlos Alexandre Antunes de Brito, Cecilia Coelho Moraes de Brito, Augusto César Oliveira, Marilia Rocha, Caio Atanásio, Carolina Asfora, Júlio Dourado Matos, Anton Saraiva Lima, Maria Fátima Militão Albuquerque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822016000500553&lng=en&tlng=en