Sentences with phrase «with microcephaly»

Zika made international headlines when it was linked to an epidemic of babies born with microcephaly in Brazil.

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.

Stella Guerra performs physical therapy on an infant born with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil.

To evaluate the ocular findings in infants with microcephaly associated with presumed intrauterine ZIKV infection in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Espinal detailed several studies underway, including a study in Brazil that will reveal information in April about children with microcephaly in the state of Pernambuco and cohort studies in Colombia are currently following 2,000 pregnant women infected with Zika virus.

«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.

Both studies found malformations associated with microcephaly, including what's known as cortical thinning and smaller brains.

The virus has been found in the amniotic fluid of two fetuses diagnosed with microcephaly via ultrasound.

For her brain organoids, Lancaster started with skin cells from a patient with microcephaly, which carried the gene known to cause the condition, and also from a healthy control.

A Brazilian researcher's work on autism has revealed possible explanaitions linking Zika virus with microcephaly.

About six months later, the country saw a drastic increase in the number of infants and fetuses with microcephaly (dotted line and scale on right).

It covered all babies born with microcephaly delivered in eight public hospitals in Brazil's north - eastern Pernambuco State between January 15 and May 2 this year.

Last year, however, concerns about the virus skyrocketed following the link between Zika virus infection with microcephaly in Brazil.

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

People with microcephaly are usually cognitively impaired to varying degrees.

«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.

Children with microcephaly frequently have developmental delays, learning disabilities, impaired motor function, and seizures.

Jacob believes LB1 was a pygmy Homo sapiens afflicted with microcephaly, a genetic disorder that causes small, abnormally shaped skulls.

Today's study is the first to associate MSI1 with microcephaly and the Zika virus.

The overlap between Zika cases in pregnant women and an increase in babies born with microcephaly strongly suggested that the virus targets stem cells in the developing human brain, but why and how has remained a mystery.

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.

In November, Brazilian researchers detected the Zika virus genome in amniotic fluid samples from two women whose fetuses were been diagnosed with microcephaly by ultrasound exams, the Pan American Health Organization reported.

The Zika virus, first discovered in 1957, was thought to be harmless for decades before the link with microcephaly emerged in recent months.

So far, no monkey or ape babies have been born with microcephaly from Zika.

«There was one special needs boy with microcephaly in my classroom who hadn't spoken in 10 years and when I pushed him on the swing in the playground he counted to 10 for me and brought me and the teacher to tears.»

The authors note their findings could downplay the frequency in which hearing loss occurs in children infected with Zika in the womb because they only tested children with microcephaly, which is characterized by an abnormally small head and in some cases brain damage.

When the first cases of newborns with microcephaly, i.e. malfor - mations of the brain, were observed in connection to Zika, it became apparent that further research was called for.

When created from the stem cells of a patient with microcephaly, the brains - in - a-dish resembled that often - fatal condition; those created from cells of patients with severe autism indicated that out - of - control neuron growth is the underlying cause of that disorder.

Objective To evaluate the ocular findings in infants with microcephaly associated with presumed intrauterine ZIKV infection in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

An association between Zika infections during pregnancy and the birth of babies with microcephaly (a birth defect in which an infant's brain does not develop properly resulting in a smaller than normal head) was first suggested by Brazilian physicians in August 2015, and in November microcephaly cases potentially associated with Zika started to be recorded; three months later WHO made its announcement.

Zika virus was discovered decades ago but wasn't associated with microcephaly — a birth defect characterized by a small head and brain — until the 2015 — 2016 outbreak in Brazil.

The number of babies born with microcephaly in northeast Brazil, the country hardest hit by the Zika outbreak, has increased about 40-fold from baseline levels in the last six months, according to reports from Brazil's Ministry of Health.

Eleven of these babies were diagnosed with microcephaly — an abnormally small head and brain — and other neurologic complications associated with Zika syndrome, the researchers reported.

The number of babies born with microcephaly in 2016 there was four times what it was in 2015.

This appears to be the first US case of a baby born with microcephaly, a condition in which the brain is abnormally small, after having a Zika infection.

In total for 2015, thousands of babies — about 10 times the normal amount for a year — were born with microcephaly, a condition in which the brain is abnormally small.

Now, within the past few months, fears that the rapidly spreading illness could be responsible for a surge in infants born with microcephaly — a much smaller head and brain than normal — have prompted public health officials in Brazil, where there's a particularly serious Zika outbreak right now, to ask women to avoid getting pregnant.

There's still a lot that we don't know about Zika, including whether or not it's definitively the cause of infants being born with microcephaly or other neurological problems.

Reports of an unusual rise in the number of Brazilian babies born with microcephaly — an unusually small head and brain, accompanied with severe mental and physical defects — caused...

Joon said all the reports raised the question of preparedness of health systems and institutions to respond to the needs of infected women and men, children born with microcephaly, and their families, especially their mothers.

Babies with microcephaly have unusually small heads.

In a study conducted in Brazil, 70 infants with microcephaly were examined at CAVIVER, a nongovernmental organization clinic and referral center dedicated to visually disabled children in Fortaleza.

A 2006 study of 77 pregnant women infected with West Nile virus reported that two had infants with microcephaly, the birth defect lately associated with Zika that results in unusually small and damaged brains.

In 2016, Colombia saw a surge in babies with microcephaly — more than four times the number reported in the previous year.

The mice are born with microcephaly, a characteristic feature of Seckel Syndrome.

Babies born with microcephaly may not develop normally, leaving them severely disabled.

January 2016: The CDC detects Zika in the brain tissue of babies born with microcephaly.

Pregnant women who are infected with the Zika virus but never display any disease symptoms may still give birth to a baby with microcephaly.

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.