Underreporting of Fatal Congenital Zika Syndrome, Mexico, 2016–2017

To determine completeness of fatal congenital Zika syndrome reporting in Mexico, we examined data from the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography. We found that an estimated 50% more infants died from microcephaly attributable to congenital Zika syndrome during 2016–2017 than were re...

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Autores principales: Cardenas, Victor M., Paternina-Caicedo, Angel Jose, Salvatierra, Ernesto Benito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6649343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31310228
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2508.190106
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Sumario:To determine completeness of fatal congenital Zika syndrome reporting in Mexico, we examined data from the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography. We found that an estimated 50% more infants died from microcephaly attributable to congenital Zika syndrome during 2016–2017 than were reported by the existing surveillance system.

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