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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2021

Causes of Phenotypic Variability and Disabilities after Prenatal Viral Infections.

Youssef A Kousa, Reafa A Hossain

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Developmental screening of full-term infants at 16 to 18 months of age after in-utero exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023
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  5. New Insights into Zika in Infants and Children.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Youssef A KousaDivision of Neurology, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC 20010, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6049-8144
Reafa A HossainStructural Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3113-8921
Children's National · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

CDC HHS SC-2020-3045NICHD NIH HHS L40 HD102847
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prenatal viral infection can lead to a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disabilities or fetal demise. These can include microencephaly, global developmental delay, intellectual disability, refractory epilepsy, deafness, retinal defects, and cortical-visual impairment. Each of these clinical conditions can occur on a semi-quantitative to continuous spectrum, from mild to severe disease, and often as a collective of phenotypes. Such serious outcomes result from viruses' overlapping neuropathology and hosts' common neuronal and gene regulatory response to infections. The etiology of variability in clinical outcomes is not yet clear, but it may be related to viral, host, vector, and/or environmental risk and protective factors that likely interact in multiple ways. In this perspective of the literature, we work toward understanding the causes of phenotypic variability after prenatal viral infections by highlighting key aspects of the viral lifecycle that can affect human disease, with special attention to the 2015 Zika pandemic. Therefore, this work offers important insights into how viral infections and environmental teratogens affect the prenatal brain, toward our ultimate goal of preventing neurodevelopmental disabilities.

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brain developmentflavivirusesglobal child healthneurodevelopmental disabilitiesphenotypic variabilityprenatal viral infectionsZika virus

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PMID34205913
PMCPMC8293342
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