First identified in 1947, Zika virus took roughly 70 years to cause a pandemic unusually associated with virus-induced brain damage in newborns. Zika virus is transmitted by …
S G. Viveiros Rosa, IM Fierro… - Expert opinion on …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Zika virus (ZIKV) is transmitted to humans throughout bites of Aedes mosquitoes. ZIKV infection may be asymptomatic in most cases, but it may cause fever …
RH Nissly, L Lim, MR Keller, IM Bird, G Bhushan… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) remains a public health concern, with epidemics in endemic regions and sporadic outbreaks in new areas posing significant threats. Several mosquito-borne …
L Durgam, L Guruprasad - Journal of Biomolecular Structure and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Congenital Zika virus syndrome has caused a public health emergency of international concern. So far, there are no drugs available to prevent or treat the infection caused by Zika …
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an enveloped RNA virus and member of the Flaviviridae family, genus Flavivirus, discovered in 1947 in the Zika Forest in Uganda and transmitted to humans …
KR Silva, JAC Zequi, AM Palacio-Cortés… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Brazil has been suffering a dengue (DENV) epidemic in 2019 and 2022 and records cases of Zika (ZIKV) and chikungunya (CHIKV). Londrina city, Paraná, stands out for the number of …
Background and Aim: Some Culex mosquitoes are competent vectors for Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and Zika virus (ZIKV), which cause public health problems …
CA Abella-Medrano, CA Sandoval-Ruíz… - Southwestern …, 2024 - BioOne
Veracruz has had outbreaks of vector-borne infectious diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and others. This state contains 61.3% of the mosquito richness in Mexico …
(Figure 1) is a neotropical mosquito that was first described in Trinidad by Dyar and Knab in 1906 (Akaratovic and Kiser 2017, ITIS 2020). Coronator means 'crown'in Latin, which refers …