Congenital Zika syndrome and living conditions in the largest city of northeastern Brazil

• Main Authors: Marcos Paulo Almeida Souza (Author), Márcio Santos da Natividade (Author), Guilherme Loureiro Werneck (Author), Darci Neves dos Santos (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic hit Brazil in 2015 and resulted in a generation of children at risk of congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). The social vulnerability of certain segments of the population contributed to the disproportional occurrence of CZS in the Brazilian Northeast, th...