[HTML][HTML] Zika virus: History, epidemiology, transmission, and clinical presentation

BH Song, SI Yun, M Woolley, YM Lee - Journal of neuroimmunology, 2017 - Elsevier
Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne positive-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae
(genus Flavivirus), is now causing an unprecedented large-scale outbreak in the Americas …

Assessing the global threat from Zika virus

J Lessler, LH Chaisson, LM Kucirka, Q Bi, K Grantz… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND First discovered in 1947, Zika virus (ZIKV) received little attention until a
surge in microcephaly cases was reported after a 2015 outbreak in Brazil. The size of the …

Independent infections of porcine deltacoronavirus among Haitian children

JA Lednicky, MS Tagliamonte, SK White, MA Elbadry… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Coronaviruses have caused three major epidemics since 2003, including the ongoing SARS-
CoV-2 pandemic. In each case, the emergence of coronavirus in our species has been …

[PDF][PDF] A screen of FDA-approved drugs for inhibitors of Zika virus infection

NJ Barrows, RK Campos, ST Powell, KR Prasanth… - Cell host & …, 2016 - cell.com
Currently there are no approved vaccines or specific therapies to prevent or treat Zika virus
(ZIKV) infection. We interrogated a library of FDA-approved drugs for their ability to block …

Spread of Zika virus in the Americas

Q Zhang, K Sun, M Chinazzi… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
We use a data-driven global stochastic epidemic model to analyze the spread of the Zika
virus (ZIKV) in the Americas. The model has high spatial and temporal resolution and …

Infection-related microcephaly after the 2015 and 2016 Zika virus outbreaks in Brazil: a surveillance-based analysis

WK de Oliveira, GVA de França, EH Carmo… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary Background On Nov 11, 2015, the Brazilian Ministry of Health declared a Public
Health Emergency of National Concern in response to an increased number of …

[HTML][HTML] Collection of SARS-CoV-2 virus from the air of a clinic within a university student health care center and analyses of the viral genomic sequence

JA Lednicky, SN Shankar, MA Elbadry… - Aerosol and air …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The progression of COVID-19 worldwide can be tracked by identifying mutations within the
genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 that occur as a function of time. Such efforts currently …

Zika virus infection induces host inflammatory responses by facilitating NLRP3 inflammasome assembly and interleukin-1β secretion

W Wang, G Li, D Wu, Z Luo, P Pan, M Tian… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection is a public health emergency and host innate immunity is essential
for the control of virus infection. The NLRP3 inflammasome plays a key role in host innate …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of porcine delta-coronavirus pathogenic infections among children in Haiti through independent zoonoses and convergent evolution

JA Lednicky, MS Tagliamonte, SK White, MA Elbadry… - MedRxiv, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Coronaviruses have caused three major epidemics since 2003, including the ongoing SARS-
CoV-2 pandemic. In each case, coronavirus emergence in our species has been associated …

Epidemiology of Zika virus infection

SL Hills, M Fischer, LR Petersen - The Journal of infectious …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Long known to be endemic in Africa and Southeast Asia and a rare cause of acute febrile
illness, Zika virus (ZIKAV) arose from obscurity when an Asian genotype ZIKAV caused an …