ZIKA virus infection and congenital Zika syndrome: A systematic review
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https://doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2025.77.57147Keywords
Zika, ZIKV, microcephaly, congenital Zika syndrome, CZS, Zika outbreak, epidemicAbstract
Zika virus (ZIKV), studied since 1950s and known for occasionally causing a mild, febrile illness in humans, became a public health emergency and a global threat to health, with its most recent major outbreak, in Brazil (2015-2016), declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the WHO. This literature review aims to provide a short summary of the research and current knowledge about ZIKV, its epidemiology and the associated medical conditions, with a particular focus on fetal and neonatal microcephaly.
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