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. 2019 Jul 22;101(3):484–490. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0934

Table 1.

Adult and congenital Zika hearing loss (HL) findings by year

First author Publication year Study type Sample size (n) Age group HL Screening Method HL result (n, %) Unilateral HL (n) Bilateral HL (n) Control group (n, % HL)
Tappe23 2014 Case report 1 Adult Self-report 1 (100) NR NR ND
M.E.R.G29 2015 Cross-sectional 23* Neonatal OAE 2 (9) NR NR ND
Leal18 2016 Retrospective cohort 70 Pediatric ABR to click and tone burst stimuli 5 (6) NR NR ND
Leal25 2016 Case series 2 Neonatal Transient OAE followed by ABR to click stimuli 1 (50) NR NR ND
Vinhaes24 2017 Case series 3 Adult Audiometry 3 (100) 1 2 ND
Martins22 2017 Case series 2 Adult Audiometry 1 (50) 1 0 ND
Satterfeldt27 2017 Cross-sectional 19 Pediatric Physician-reported HINE assessment 13 (68) NR NR ND
Santos28 2017 Case series 2 Neonatal Evoked OAE followed by ABR 1 (50) NR NR ND
Wheeler26 2018 Cross-sectional 47 Pediatric No response to voice or sound 13 (28) NR NR ND
Does not look for sound 8 (17)
No response to word “No” 20 (43)
de Laval30 2018 Prospective cohort 49 Adult NR NR NR NR ND
Ventura31 2018 Case report 1 Neonatal ABR to click stimuli 1 (100) 1 0 ND
Franca32 2018 Cross-sectional 8 Pediatric NR NR NR NR ND
Vianna33 2019 Prospective cohort 26 Pediatric ABR 2 (8) NR NR 65 (3)
Calle-Giraldo34 2019 Prospective cohort 68 Neonatal ABR 6 (9) 3 3 ND

ABR = auditory brainstem response; ND = not done; NR = not reported; OAE = otoacoustic emission; HINE = Hammersmith infant neurological examination Adult, 18 years or greater; pediatric, 0–24 months; neonatal, anomalies detected at birth.

* Total sample size of 104, only 23 screened for HL.