Demócrito de Barros Miranda-Filho, Elizabeth B Brickley, Anna Ramond, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Nuria Sanchez Clemente, Thália Velho Barreto de Araújo, Laura Cunha Rodrigues, Ulisses Ramos Montarroyos, Wayner Vieira de Souza, Maria de Fátima P M de Albuquerque, Liana O Ventura, Ernesto T A Marques, Mariana C Leal, Sophie H Eickmann, Maria Angela Wanderley Rocha, Paula Fabiana Sobral da Silva, Maria Durce Costa Gomes Carvalho, Regina Coeli F Ramos, Danielle Maria da Silva Oliveira, Morgana do Nascimento Xavier, Rômulo A L Vasconcelos, Andreia Veras Gonçalves, Alessandra Mertens Brainer, Marli Tenório Cordeiro, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, On Behalf Of The Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group
This cohort profile aims to describe the ongoing follow-up of children in the Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group Paediatric Cohort (MERG-PC). The profile details the context and aims of the study, study population, methodology including assessments, and key results and publications to date. The children that make up MERG-PC were born in Recife or within 120 km of the city, in Pernambuco/Brazil, the epicentre of the microcephaly epidemic. MERG-PC includes children from four groups recruited at different stages of the ZIKV microcephaly epidemic in Pernambuco, i...
April 1, 2021: Viruses