| Literature DB >> 30408008 |
Cheng-Ying Ho1, Nicolas Castillo2, Liliana Encinales3, Alexandra Porras4, Alejandro Rico Mendoza4, Rebecca Lynch5, Amy Nemirovsky1, Grace Mantus5, Roberta L DeBiasi6,7,8, Jeffrey M Bethony5, Gary L Simon8, Aileen Y Chang8.
Abstract
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne virus that causes congenital Zika syndrome, characterized by microcephaly and other fetal brain anomalies. This case report presents a case of Zika virus-related fetal brain anomalies including pathologic evidence of cerebral neuronal apoptosis and macrophage infiltrates and intracerebral calcification, ventriculomegaly and corpus callosum dysgenesis detected by ultrasound at 18 weeks of pregnancy.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30408008 PMCID: PMC6233735 DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002080
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pediatr Infect Dis J ISSN: 0891-3668 Impact factor: 2.129