The clinical spectrum and immunopathological mechanisms underlying ZIKV-induced neurological manifestations.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Igor Salerno Filgueiras, Amanda Torrentes de Carvalho, Daniela Prado Cunha, Dennyson Leandro Mathias da Fonseca, Nadia El Khawanky, Paula Paccielli Freire, Gustavo Cabral-Miranda, Lena F Schimke, Niels Olsen Saraiva Camara, Hans D Ochs, Jean Pierre Schatzmann Peron, Otávio Cabral-Marques, Zilton Farias Meira de Vasconcelos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Barré
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009575; https://doaj.org/article/7fbe4d0fdbd149c3ad5b304c834310e7

Since the 2015 to 2016 outbreak in America, Zika virus (ZIKV) infected almost 900,000 patients. This international public health emergency was mainly associated with a significant increase in the number of newborns with congenital microcephaly and abnormal neurologic development, known as congenital...