Microcephaly and associated risk factors in newborns: A systematic review and meta-analysis study

NL Melo, DF Sousa, GZ Laporta - Tropical medicine and infectious …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Congenital microcephaly is caused by a multitude of drivers affecting maternal–fetal health
during pregnancy. It is a rare outcome in high-income industrial countries where …

Big Data to Knowledge Analytics Reveals the Zika Virus Epidemic as Only One of Multiple Factors Contributing to a Year-Over-Year 28-Fold Increase in Microcephaly …

MP Cifuentes, CM Suarez, R Cifuentes… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the 2015–2016 Zika Virus (ZIKV) epidemic in Brazil, the geographical distributions of
ZIKV infection and microcephaly outbreaks did not align. This raised doubts about the virus …

HSV-2 Infection Enhances Zika Virus Infection of Primary Genital Epithelial Cells Independently of the Known Zika Virus Receptor AXL

GG Gornalusse, M Zhang, R Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is transmitted to people by bite of an infected mosquito and by sexual
contact. ZIKV infects primary genital epithelial cells, the same cells targeted by herpes …