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Guideline
. 2017 Dec 4;35(48 Pt A):6472-6482.
doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.01.044.

Congenital microcephaly: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of safety data after maternal immunisation

Malini DeSilva  1 , Flor M Munoz  2 , Erick Sell  3 , Helen Marshall  4 , Alison Tse Kawai  5 , Alisa Kachikis  6 , Paul Heath  7 , Nicola P Klein  8 , James M Oleske  9 , Fyezah Jehan  10 , Hans Spiegel  11 , Mirjana Nesin  12 , Beckie N Tagbo  13 , Anju Shrestha  14 , Clare L Cutland  15 , Linda O Eckert  7 , Sonali Kochhar  16 , Azucena Bardají  17 ; Brighton Collaboration Congenital Microcephaly Working Group
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Congenital microcephaly: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of safety data after maternal immunisation

Malini DeSilva et al. Vaccine. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Adverse event; Brighton Collaboration; Case definition; Congenital microcephaly; GAIA; Guidelines; Immunisation.

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Fig. 1
Measuring Head Circumference (image reproduced from reference CDC’s response to Zika [56]).
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Fig. 2
Reproduced from reference . The level of the cross-section through the fetal head for correct measurement (A). The image (B) is well magnified, the head is horizontal, oval in shape and symmetrical. The landmarks are seen with a centrally positioned and continuous midline falx cerebri (1), the midline echo is broken anteriorly at one-third of its length by the cavum septi pellucidi (2) and the thalami are located symmetrically (3). Callipers, are placed so that their intersection is on the outer border of the bones (C). When using the ellipse facility this should run along the outer border of the skull (D).
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