Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, a medical journal published by The College of American Pathologists (CAP), has created a comprehensive review of the Zika virus in its upcoming January 2017 issue. A series of 10 articles written by experts in the investigation of this emerging global pathogen will provide pathologists and other healthcare professionals with critical insight to the history of Zika virus from its initial discovery in the Ziika Forest of Uganda in 1947 to its recent designation by the World Health Organization as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This series represents the first special issue focused on Zika virus in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
The articles were selected and edited by Archives Associate Editor Dr. David A. Schwartz, a leader in the field of global maternal health and placental pathology. Schwartz said the medical community needed a publication to step forward with the latest information about the Zika virus so that additional collaboration among pathologists, medical scientists, and the affected clinical specialties can instantly begin in 2017.
Additional articles in this special issue address the history of the discovery of the Zika virus in Uganda, the biology of the Zika virus as an emerging flavivirus pathogen, anatomic effects of Zika virus on the central nervous system of fetuses, Zika virus as the newest agent of congenital TORCH infections, autopsy pathology findings in fetuses and neonates with microcephaly and congenital Zika virus syndrome, experimental and laboratory studies of Zika virus infection in cell cultures and animal models of infection, and the role of the medical examiner and coroner in the Zika virus pandemic.
All of the articles in this Zika virus special issue will be available on the Archives open access Web site.
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