PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Michael A Johansson
AU  - Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero
AU  - Jennita Reefhuis
AU  - Suzanne M Gilboa
AU  - Susan L Hills
TI  - Risk estimates for microcephaly related to Zika virus infection - from French Polynesia to Bahia, Brazil
AID  - 10.1101/051060
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 051060
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/02/051060.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/02/051060.full
AB  - Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy has been linked to birth defects,1 yet the magnitude of risk remains uncertain. A study of the Zika outbreak in French Polynesia estimated that the risk of microcephaly due to ZIKV infection in the first trimester of pregnancy was 0.95% (95% confidence interval: 0.34-1.91%), based on eight microcephaly cases identified retrospectively in a population of approximately 270,000 people with an estimated 66% ZIKV infection rate.2