Sentences with phrase «mothers of both microcephaly»

A high proportion of mothers of both microcephaly and non-microcephaly babies also tested positive for another mosquito - borne virus, dengue fever, as well as other infections such as herpes, rubella and toxoplasma.

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One of the reasons it's been so troubling is that it's a cause of a serious birth defect called microcephaly, in which the head of babies whose mothers have been infected with Zika during pregnancy are abnormally small.

One reason Zika is troubling is that it is a cause of birth defects, including microcephaly — a condition where the baby's head is abnormally small — in babies whose mothers have had Zika.

One reason Zika is troubling is because it is a cause of birth defects, including microcephaly — a condition where the baby's head is abnormally small — in babies whose mothers have had Zika.

After taking samples and conducting brain scans, the researchers found that 41 percent of mothers of babies with microcephaly tested positive for Zika infection in blood or cerebrospinal fluid samples, compared with none of those whose babies did not have microcephaly.

The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light last fall in Brazil, which has now confirmed more than 1,800 cases of microcephaly that it considers to be related to Zika infection in the mothers.

Mothers and families of infants born with congenital anomalies (e.g. microcephaly) should be supported to breastfeed their infants in line with WHO recommendations.

The finding strengthens the evidence that a mother's Zika infection during pregnancy raises her baby's risk of microcephaly and other brain malformations.

Neither set of pups developed microcephaly, which Diamond says could be because the researchers infected the mothers so early during pregnancy that not much brain development had yet occurred.

In Brazil, thousands of babies have been born with microcephaly after their mothers were infected with Zika virus.

Researchers have linked Zika virus to microcephaly — a birth defect affecting the heads and brains of infants born to infected mothers.

The finding of virus in the brain could also be important, since the most devastating impact of the current outbreak in Brazil appears to be children of infected mothers born with microcephaly — abnormally small heads and, in some cases, incomplete brain development.

«As we learn more about the consequences of Zika infection, including the recent revelation that babies of Zika - infected mothers who had normal head sizes at birth have been diagnosed with microcephaly months later, it is vital that we know this enemy and remain vigilant in protecting ourselves,» Diaz concludes.

Although Brazil has had more than 4000 suspected cases of microcephaly, it has confirmed only 270 cases of this brain - damaging condition in children born to mothers who had evidence of having been infected with the virus.

Data from the Brazilian metropolis have confirmed this suspicion and, together with other studies, enable the researchers to estimate the absolute risk of microcephaly upon infection of the mother during pregnancy: approximately one out of 100 mothers infected during early pregnancy will bear a child with microcephaly.

«The increased number of newborns with microcephaly observed during the Zika outbreak in Brazil is linked to Zika infection of the mother during early pregnancy,» explains Drexler.

Since 2016 thousands of children across South America have been born with microcephaly, which causes abnormally small heads, after their mothers became infected with the Zika virus during pregnancy.

We next estimated the maximum number of births potentially affected by ZIKV in Latin America, as this region is the focus of the recent outbreak and the first to point to a possible association with microcephaly in newborn infants to mothers infected with ZIKV.

Contracted through the bite of an infected mosquito or through sexual or other modes of transmission, Zika virus (ZIKV) infection can be prenatally passed from mother to fetus.1 The virus was first identified in the region of the Americas in early 2015, when local transmission was reported in Brazil.2 Six months later, a notable increase in the number of infants with congenital microcephaly was observed in northeast Brazil.3, 4 Clinical, epidemiologic, and laboratory evidence led investigators to conclude that intrauterine ZIKV infection was a cause of microcephaly and serious brain anomalies.5 - 7 However, as with other newly recognized teratogens, these features likely represent a portion of a broader spectrum.

The FBDS phenotype has been reported in an infant with laboratory - confirmed ZIKV infection, 13 in a neuroimaging report documenting cranial bone collapse in infants born to mothers with suspected ZIKV infection during pregnancy, 14 and a recent case series of infants with probable ZIKV - associated microcephaly.38 In 3 of the largest case series reporting 35, 48, and 104 infants primarily with suspected congenital ZIKV infection, 33,37,38 approximately two - thirds of infants had severe microcephaly.

«We are also launching further studies to determine whether children who have microcephaly born to mothers infected by the Zika virus is the tip of the iceberg of what we could see in damaging effects on the brain and other developmental problems.»

«Among infants of mothers exposed to Zika virus during pregnancy, the absence of microcephaly at birth does not rule out congenital Zika virus infection or the presence of Zika - related brain abnormalities,» according to a news release from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Expectant mothers are most at risk because of Zika's known link to birth defects (especially microcephaly, where a baby's head is smaller than normal at birth).