2016/02/10 by Eric J. Rubin, Michael F. Greene, Lindsey R. Baden · 2 citations
Medicine · #Mosquito-borne diseases and control #Viral Infections and Vectors #Virology and Viral Diseases
paper · doi:10.1056/nejme1601862
openalex publication_date 2016/02/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Zika virus has been sweeping through South and Central America, with more than a million suspected cases during the past few months, along with a substantial increase in reporting of infants born with microcephaly.1,2 Thus far, the two outbreaks have largely been epidemiologically associated in time and geography. However, Mlakar and colleagues3 now report in the Journal molecular genetic and electron-microscopic data from a case that helps to strengthen the biologic association. This group cared for a pregnant European woman in whom a syndrome compatible with Zika virus infection developed at 13 weeks of gestation while she was working . . .