Zika Virus as a Cause of Neurologic Disorders

N Engl J Med. 2016 Apr 21;374(16):1506-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1602708. Epub 2016 Mar 9.

Authors

Nathalie Broutet¹, Fabienne Krauer¹, Maurane Riesen¹, Asheena Khalakdina¹, Maria Almiron¹, Sylvain Aldighieri¹, Marcos Espinal¹, Nicola Low¹, Christopher Dye¹

Affiliation

¹ From the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.B., A.K., C.D.), and the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern (F.K., M.R., N.L.) - both in Switzerland; and the Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC (M.A., S.A., M.E.).

PMID: 26959308
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1602708

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aedes
Animals
Disease Outbreaks*
Guillain-Barre Syndrome / epidemiology
Guillain-Barre Syndrome / virology*
Humans
Insect Vectors
Microcephaly / epidemiology
Microcephaly / virology*
Zika Virus Infection / complications*
Zika Virus Infection / epidemiology
Zika Virus*

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International