Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and pregnancy: what obstetricians need to know

SA Rasmussen, JC Smulian, JA Lednicky… - American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coronavirus disease 2019 is an emerging disease with a rapid increase in cases and
deaths since its first identification in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Limited data are …

Brain organoids: advances, applications and challenges

X Qian, H Song, G Ming - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Brain organoids are self-assembled three-dimensional aggregates generated from
pluripotent stem cells with cell types and cytoarchitectures that resemble the embryonic …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus infection—after the pandemic

D Musso, AI Ko, D Baud - New England Journal of Medicine, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
Zika Virus and Its Associated Diseases Zika is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that can cause
congenital defects, including microcephaly. Although most Zika virus infections are …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring the global burden of chikungunya and Zika viruses: A systematic review

CJ Puntasecca, CH King… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Throughout the last decade, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) infections
have spread globally, causing a spectrum of disease that ranges from self-limited febrile …

Delayed childhood neurodevelopment and neurosensory alterations in the second year of life in a prospective cohort of ZIKV-exposed children

K Nielsen-Saines, P Brasil, T Kerin, Z Vasconcelos… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
We report neurodevelopmental outcomes in 216 infants followed since the time of PCR-
confirmed maternal Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in pregnancy during the Rio de Janeiro …

[HTML][HTML] Congenital Zika syndrome: A systematic review

DA Freitas, R Souza-Santos, LMA Carvalho… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
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 …

The recent challenges of highly contagious COVID‐19, causing respiratory infections: Symptoms, diagnosis, transmission, possible vaccines, animal models, and …

RK Mohapatra, L Pintilie, V Kandi… - Chemical biology & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 is highly contagious pathogenic viral infection initiated from Wuhan seafood
wholesale market of China on December 2019 and spread rapidly around the whole world …

Distress and anxiety associated with COVID-19 among Jewish and Arab pregnant women in Israel

O Taubman–Ben-Ari, M Chasson… - … of reproductive and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The fact that little is yet known about the possible implications of COVID-19 for
pregnancy, puts pregnant women at greater risk of heightened anxiety and psychological …

Pregnancy outcomes after ZIKV infection in French territories in the Americas

B Hoen, B Schaub, AL Funk, V Ardillon… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The risk of congenital neurologic defects related to Zika virus (ZIKV) infection
has ranged from 6 to 42% in various reports. The aim of this study was to estimate this risk …

Association between microcephaly, Zika virus infection, and other risk factors in Brazil: final report of a case-control study

TVB de Araújo, RA de Alencar Ximenes… - The Lancet infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background A Zika virus epidemic emerged in northeast Brazil in 2015 and was followed by
a striking increase in congenital microcephaly cases, triggering a declaration of an …