Microcephaly in Infants, Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2015

We studied the clinical characteristics for 104 infants born with microcephaly in the delivery hospitals of Pernambuco State, Brazil, during 2015. Testing is ongoing to exclude known infectious causes. However, microcephaly peaked in October and demonstrated central nervous system abnormalities with...

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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27071041
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2206.160062
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description We studied the clinical characteristics for 104 infants born with microcephaly in the delivery hospitals of Pernambuco State, Brazil, during 2015. Testing is ongoing to exclude known infectious causes. However, microcephaly peaked in October and demonstrated central nervous system abnormalities with brain dysgenesis and intracranial calcifications consistent with an intrauterine infection.
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spelling pubmed-48801052016-06-01 Microcephaly in Infants, Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2015 Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We studied the clinical characteristics for 104 infants born with microcephaly in the delivery hospitals of Pernambuco State, Brazil, during 2015. Testing is ongoing to exclude known infectious causes. However, microcephaly peaked in October and demonstrated central nervous system abnormalities with brain dysgenesis and intracranial calcifications consistent with an intrauterine infection. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4880105/ /pubmed/27071041 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2206.160062 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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title_full Microcephaly in Infants, Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2015
title_fullStr Microcephaly in Infants, Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2015
title_full_unstemmed Microcephaly in Infants, Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2015
title_short Microcephaly in Infants, Pernambuco State, Brazil, 2015
title_sort microcephaly in infants, pernambuco state, brazil, 2015
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27071041
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