Causes of death in children with congenital Zika syndrome in Brazil, 2015 to 2018: A nationwide record linkage study.
Maria da Conceição N CostaLuciana Lobato CardimCynthia A MooreDaisy Maria Xavier de AbreuRita Carvalho-SauerMaurício Lima BarretoLaura C RodriguesLiam SmeethLavínia Schuler FacciniElizabeth B BrickleyWanderson Kleber de OliveiraEduardo Hage CarmoJulia Moreira PescariniRoberto Fernandes Silva AndradeMoreno Magalhães de Souza RodriguesRafael Valente VeigaLarissa C CostaGiovanny V A FrançaMaria da Gloria TeixeiraEnny Santos da PaixãoPublished in: PLoS medicine (2023)
The sequence of causes and circumstances involved in the deaths of the children with CZS highlights the greater vulnerability of these children to infectious and respiratory conditions compared to children with abnormalities of the CNS not related to Zika.