Causal or not: applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly

While experts have suspected a causal link between outbreaks of Zika virus and microcephaly, it was not demonstrated. The currently available data are here organized into the Austin Bradford Hill's aspects of evidence for the consideration of causality. [Image: see text]

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Autores principales: Frank, Christina, Faber, Mirko, Stark, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26976611
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201506058
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spelling pubmed-48187552016-04-14 Causal or not: applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly Frank, Christina Faber, Mirko Stark, Klaus EMBO Mol Med Opinion While experts have suspected a causal link between outbreaks of Zika virus and microcephaly, it was not demonstrated. The currently available data are here organized into the Austin Bradford Hill's aspects of evidence for the consideration of causality. [Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-03-14 2016-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4818755/ /pubmed/26976611 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201506058 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Causal or not: applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly
title Causal or not: applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly
title_full Causal or not: applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly
title_fullStr Causal or not: applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly
title_full_unstemmed Causal or not: applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly
title_short Causal or not: applying the Bradford Hill aspects of evidence to the association between Zika virus and microcephaly
title_sort causal or not: applying the bradford hill aspects of evidence to the association between zika virus and microcephaly
topic Opinion
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26976611
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201506058
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