Nature Communications (Jul 2020)
Zika virus vertical transmission in children with confirmed antenatal exposure
- 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
Affiliations
- Patrícia Brasil
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Zilton Vasconcelos
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Tara Kerin
- David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- Claudia Raja Gabaglia
- Biomedical Research Institute of Southern California
- Ieda P. Ribeiro
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Myrna C. Bonaldo
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Luana Damasceno
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Marcos V. Pone
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Sheila Pone
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Andrea Zin
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Irena Tsui
- David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- Kristina Adachi
- David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- Jose Paulo Pereira
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Stephanie L. Gaw
- University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
- Liege Carvalho
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Denise C. Cunha
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Leticia Guida
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Mirza Rocha
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- James D. Cherry
- David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- Lulan Wang
- David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- Saba Aliyari
- David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- Genhong Cheng
- David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- Suan-Sin Foo
- University of Southern California
- Weiqiang Chen
- University of Southern California
- Jae Jung
- University of Southern California
- Elizabeth Brickley
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Maria Elisabeth L. Moreira
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Karin Nielsen-Saines
- David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17331-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
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 clinical outcomes, suggesting follow-up of children with antenatal ZIKV exposure is necessary.