Maria Luiza Bernardes Dos Santos, Luiz Cláudio Santos De Souza Lima, Andrea Araújo Zin, Maria Elisabeth Lopes Moreira, Zilton Farias Moreira De Vasconcelos, Luiza Maceira De Almeida Neves, Maurício Bastos Pereira, Renata Artimos De Oliveira Vianna, Luis Guillermo Coca Velarde, Solange Artimos De Oliveira, Lee Woodland Riley, Claudete Aparecida Araújo Cardoso
INTRODUCTION: Congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) is a recently described disease. Our main objective was to evaluate and monitor, over 3 years, the ophthalmoscopic findings in children exposed to zika virus (ZIKV) during gestation. METHODS: This prospective observational study was conducted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between April 2016 and May 2019. We evaluated two groups with exanthema serving as a proxy for viremia: (i) children whose mothers had exanthema during pregnancy and (ii) children who had microcephaly without maternal exanthema during pregnancy...
September 7, 2023: Journal of Tropical Pediatrics