Utilising additional sources of information on microcephaly

In this context, we commend the efforts of the Paediatric Cardiology and Perinatology Network from Paraíba in northeast Brazil. Their retrospective analysis of head circumference from 2012-15 data suggests that the incidence of microcephaly in Paraíba, even with conservative criteria, has exceeded 200 per 10 000 births since late 2012, well before the apparent onset of the Zika virus outbreak in 2015. By contrast, a series of 360 births with microcephaly in Missouri, USA, in the 1990s amounted to a population incidence of 7 per 10 000 births. 3.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:387

Enthalten in:

The lancet - 387(2016), 10022, Seite 940

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Byass, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Wilder-Smith, Annelies [Sonstige Person]

Links:

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Themen:

Birth defects
Births
Microcephaly - diagnosis
Microcephaly - epidemiology
Microcephaly - virology
Zika Virus Infection - diagnosis
Zika Virus Infection - epidemiology
Zika virus

RVK:

RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00519-5

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1972766791