Zika Virus Infection as a Cause of Congenital Brain Abnormalities and Guillain–Barré Syndrome: Systematic Review

Krauer, Fabienne; Riesen, Maurane; Revéiz, Ludovic; T. Oladapo, Olufemi; Aralí Martínez-Vega, Ruth; Valérie Porgo, Teegwendé; Haefliger, Anina; Broutet, Nathalie; Low, Nicola; Zika Causality Working Group, WHO

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002203

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Zika Virus Infection as a Cause of Congenital Brain Abnormalities and Guillain–Barré Syndrome: Systematic Review

Published in PLoS Medicine • Jan 3, 2017

Authors:

Fabienne Krauer

Maurane Riesen

Ludovic Revéiz

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) stated in March 2016 that there was scientific consensus that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was a cause of the neurological disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and of microcephaly and other congenital brain abnormalities based on rapid evidence asse...

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Zika virus

Causality (physics)

Medicine

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