Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2016)

Early Growth and Neurologic Outcomes of Infants with Probable Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome

  • Antonio Augusto Moura da Silva,
  • Jucelia Sousa Santos Ganz,
  • Patricia da Silva Sousa,
  • Maria Juliana Rodvalho Doriqui,
  • Marizelia Rodrigues Costa Ribeiro,
  • Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho Branco,
  • Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz,
  • Maria de Jesus Torres Pacheco,
  • Flavia Regina Vieira da Costa,
  • Francelena de Sousa Silva,
  • Vanda Maria Ferreira Simões,
  • Marcos Antonio Barbosa Pacheco,
  • Fernando Lamy-Filho,
  • Zeni Carvalho Lamy,
  • Maria Teresa Seabra Soares de Britto e Alves

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2211.160956
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 11
pp. 1953 – 1956

Abstract

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We report the early growth and neurologic findings of 48 infants in Brazil diagnosed with probable congenital Zika virus syndrome and followed to age 1–8 months. Most of these infants had microcephaly (86.7%) and craniofacial disproportion (95.8%). The clinical pattern included poor head growth with increasingly negative z-scores, pyramidal/extrapyramidal symptoms, and epilepsy.

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