PLOS Medicine
Published March 5, 2019 14:00 ET (News release from PLOS)
Women infected with Zika virus early in pregnancy are almost 17 times more likely to have a child with microcephaly, abnormal smallness of the head. Researchers used national reporting databases in Brazil to assemble information on nine known or hypothesized causes of microcephaly for all births in the country between 2015 and 2017. They found a consistent association between Zika infection during pregnancy and microcephaly that was not modified by other viruses or environmental exposures.
Canadian co-author: Isaac Bogoch, University of Toronto – isaac.bogoch@uhn.ca
