Social-Emotional Status Of Children With Uterine Exposure To The Zika Virus

During the 2015-16 Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in Brazil, hospital surveillance for congenital Zika infection (CZI) was conducted at the Jos é Maria de Magalhães Neto reference maternity hospital, located in Salvador-Brazil, between February and December 20161. Normocephalic infants with prenatal exposure to ZIKV were recruited if their serological testing or a polymerase-chain-reaction assay (PCR) for ZIKV were positive. All their mot hers reported ZIKV infection symptoms during pregnancy and had anti-ZIKV IgG positivity at the time of delivery.

Source: Pediatric Neurology - August 7, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Adriana Virg ínia Barros Faiçal, Juliana Menezes Gomes Cabral de Oliveira, Nara C. Andrade, Angelina Xavier Acosta, Isadora Cristina de Siqueira Tags: Research Letter Source Type: research