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From the perception of a cluster of cases of children with microcephaly to cong...
Ribeiro, Erlane Marques; Lopes, Thayse Figueiredo; Kerbage, Sáile Cavalcante; Pessoa, André Luis Santos; Cavalcanti, Luciano Pamplona de GóesA little more than a year ago, physicians and researchers from the northeastern region of Brazil raised the hypothesis of an association between microcephaly cases in newborns and a possible Zika virus infection in their mothers during pregnancy. Common phenotypic features called the attention of the discerning eyes of geneticists, already used to this type of observation [1]. In those cases, records of exanthe...
Microcephaly in Infants, Ceará State, Brazil, 2015-2016
Cavalcanti, Luciano Pamplona de Góes; Ribeiro, Erlane Marques; Pessoa, André Luis Santos; Carvalho, Francisco Herlânio Costa; Martins Neto, ManoelIn late 2015, the Brazilian Ministry of Health officially announced the association between microcephaly in infants and Zika virus infection of the mother during pregnancy. We describe preliminary findings of this outbreak in Ceará, Northeast Brazil and it’s clinical characteristics in each medical speciality. We report epidemiological findings of 317 cases of microcephaly outbreak potentially associated with Z...