Zika virus vertical transmission in children with confirmed antenatal exposure

Here, Brasil et al. investigate mother to child Zika virus (ZIKV) transmission rates in a large longitudinal cohort of pregnant ZIKV-positive women with their infants followed from the time of maternal infection through birth and onwards, finding high in utero transmission rates that do not predict...

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Main Authors: Patrícia Brasil, Zilton Vasconcelos, Tara Kerin, Claudia Raja Gabaglia, Ieda P. Ribeiro, Myrna C. Bonaldo, Luana Damasceno, Marcos V. Pone, Sheila Pone, Andrea Zin, Irena Tsui, Kristina Adachi, Jose Paulo Pereira, Stephanie L. Gaw, Liege Carvalho, Denise C. Cunha, Leticia Guida, Mirza Rocha, James D. Cherry, Lulan Wang, Saba Aliyari, Genhong Cheng, Suan-Sin Foo, Weiqiang Chen, Jae Jung, Elizabeth Brickley, Maria Elisabeth L. Moreira, Karin Nielsen-Saines
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17331-0