TY - JOUR AU - Rosenstierne, Maiken Worsøe AU - Schaltz-Buchholzer, Frederik AU - Bruzadelli, Fernanda AU - Có, Asson AU - Cardoso, Placido AU - Jørgensen, Charlotte Sværke AU - Michiels, Johan AU - Heyndrickx, Leo AU - Ariën, Kevin AU - Fischer, Thea Kølsen AU - Fomsgaard, Anders T1 - Zika Virus IgG in Infants with Microcephaly, Guinea-Bissau, 2016 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 5 SP - 948 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We analyzed blood samples from infants born with microcephaly and their mothers in Guinea-Bissau in 2016 for pathogens associated with birth defects. No Zika virus RNA was detected, but Zika virus IgG was highly prevalent. We recommend implementing pathogen screening of infants with congenital defects in Guinea-Bissau. KW - Zika virus KW - TORCH KW - microcephaly KW - congenital CMV KW - viruses KW - vector-borne infections KW - Toxoplasma gondii KW - Treponema pallidum KW - varicella-zoster virus KW - parvovirus B19 KW - rubella virus KW - cytomegalovirus KW - herpes simplex virus KW - Guinea-Bissau KW - infants KW - CMV KW - congenital infections KW - birth defects DO - 10.3201/eid2405.180153 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/5/18-0153_article ER - End of Reference