Health demands and care of children with congenital Zika syndrome and their mothers in a Brazilian state

• Main Authors: Cláudia Du Bocage Santos-Pinto (Author), Daniele de Almeida Soares-Marangoni (Author), Fernando Pierette Ferrari (Author), Maria Elizabeth Araújo Ajalla (Author), Fabio Antonio Venancio (Author), Thais Silveira da Rosa (Author), Everton Falcão de Oliveira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A Zika virus (ZIKV) infection outbreak occurred in Brazil in 2015, accompanied by a marked increase in the number of newborns presenting with microcephaly and other neurological disorders. This characteristic set of birth defects was later termed congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). T...