Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women in Rio de Janeiro — Preliminary Report

By P. Brasil, J. Pereira, C. Gabaglia, L. Damasceno, M. Wakimoto, R. M. Nogueira, P. Sequeira, A. Siqueira, L. Carvalho, D. C. Cunha and 10 more. Yearbook of Pediatrics, 2016

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(Abstracted from N Engl J Med 2016; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1602412) Zika virus (ZIKV) was first identified in Brazil in 2015 by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction assays of serum specimens from patients who presented with a dengue-like illness that was characterized by rash, fever, myalgias, arthralgias, and conjunctivitis. Zika virus has been linked to neonatal microcephaly.

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• A Mouse Model of Zika Virus Pathogenesis (2016, background): “During the current epidemic in Latin America, ZIKV infection has been linked to the development of severe fetal abnormalities that include spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, hydranencephaly, microcephaly, and placental insufficiency that may cause intrauterine growth restriction (Brasil et al., 2016;”