• Epidemiological profile of 39 cases of microcephaly caused by congenital infections diagnosed in the state of Rio Grande do Sul between 2015-2017 

      Herber, Silvani; Terra, Anna Pires; Silva, André Anjos da; Sanseverino, Maria Teresa Vieira; Fraga, Lucas Rosa; Vianna, Fernanda Sales Luiz; Schwartz, Ida Vanessa Doederlein; Faccini, Lavinia Schuler; Friedrich, Luciana (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      Introduction: Microcephaly is a clinical finding that can arise from congenital anomalies or emerge after childbirth. Maternal infections acquired during pregnancy can result in characteristic brain damage in the newborn ...
    • O impacto do vírus Zika no Brasil e no mundo 

      Cagnini, Emanuela Fernanda Tureta; Rosa, Rafael Lopes da; Oliveira, Markus Berger; Santi, Lucélia; Guimaraes, Jorge Almeida; Silva, Walter Orlando Beys da (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      O vírus Zika, transmitido por mosquitos do gênero Aedes, foi responsável recentemente por um grande surto de infecções e condições patológicas a ele associadas. Muitos casos de microcefalia e outras complicações neurológicas ...
    • Neurological evaluation of microcephalic children with Zika syndrome and congenital cytomegalovirus infection 

      Faccini, Lavinia Schuler; Friedrich, Luciana; Moura, Sara Kvitko de; Santa Maria, Fernanda Diffini; Bone, Steice da Silva Inácio de (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Introduction: The association between the virus prenatal infection by Zika virus (ZIKV) and central nervous system disorders has been well established and it has been described as the Congenital Syndrome Associated to the ...
    • Population-based surveillance for congenital zika virus syndrome: a latent class analysis of recorded cases from 2015–2018 

      Paixão, Enny Santos da; Rodrigues, Laura Cunha; Costa, Maria da Conceição Nascimento; Carvalho-Sauer, Rita de Cassia Oliveira; Oliveira, Wanderson Kleber de; Cardim, Luciana Lobato; Faccini, Lavinia Schuler; Andrade, Roberto Fernandes Silva; Rodrigues, Moreno Magalhães de Souza; Brickley, Elizabeth B.; Veiga, Rafael Valente; Costa, Larissa Catharina; Carmo, Eduardo Hage; Smeeth, Liam; Barreto, Mauricio Lima; Teixeira, Maria Gloria (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      Abstract Objective: This study aims to describe clinical fndings and determine the medium-term survival of congenital zika syndrome (CZS) suspected cases. Methods: A retrospective cohort study using routine register-based ...