Background The signs and symptoms of Zika virus infection are usually mild and self-limited.
However, the disease has been linked to neurological complications such as Guillain-Barré …

Children born small for gestational age (SGA), defined as a birth weight and/or length
below− 2 SD score (SDS), comprise a heterogeneous group. The causes of SGA are …

Importance Recent studies have reported an increase in the number of fetuses and
neonates with microcephaly whose mothers were infected with the Zika virus (ZIKV) during …

Flaviviruses are emerging and re-emerging arthropod-borne pathogens responsible for
significant mortality and morbidity worldwide. The genus comprises more than seventy …

Viral infections during pregnancy are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes,
including maternal and fetal mortality, pregnancy loss, premature labor, and congenital …

Infection of pregnant women by Asian lineage strains of Zika virus (ZIKV) has been linked to
brain abnormalities in their infants, yet it is uncertain when during pregnancy the human …

Abstract In the Western Hemisphere, Zika virus is thought to be transmitted primarily by
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. To determine the extent to which Ae. albopictus mosquitoes from …

Zika virus (ZIVK) represents a new threat to global health, with particular relevance to
neuroscientists, due to associated newborn and adult neurological disease. Consequences …

Purpose Attention is increasingly focused on the potential mechanism (s) for Zika virus
infection to be transmitted from an infected mother to her fetus. This communication …

The development of interventions to prevent congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) has been
limited by the lack of an established nonhuman primate model. Here we show that infection …