Plasma lipidome profiling of newborns with antenatal exposure to Zika virus.

• Main Authors: Nieli Rodrigues da Costa Faria (Author), Adriano Britto Chaves-Filho (Author), Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara (Author), Isadora Cristina de Siqueira (Author), Juan Ignacio Calcagno (Author), Sayuri Miyamoto (Author), Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis (Author), Marcos Yukio Yoshinaga (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The 2015-2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in Brazil was remarkably linked to the incidence of microcephaly and other deleterious clinical manifestations, including eye abnormalities, in newborns. It is known that ZIKV targets the placenta, triggering an inflammatory profile that may cause placental i...