[HTML][HTML] Pandemics: risks, impacts, and mitigation

N Madhav, B Oppenheim, M Gallivan… - … improving health and …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase
morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic, social …

Point of care testing for infectious diseases

H Chen, K Liu, Z Li, P Wang - Clinica chimica acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms and can be transmitted
between individuals and populations thus threatening the general public health and …

Zika virus: new clinical syndromes and its emergence in the western hemisphere

HM Lazear, MS Diamond - Journal of virology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV) had remained a relatively obscure flavivirus until a recent series of
outbreaks accompanied by unexpectedly severe clinical complications brought this virus …

Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States

ND Grubaugh, JT Ladner, MUG Kraemer, G Dudas… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) is causing an unprecedented epidemic linked to severe congenital
abnormalities,. In July 2016, mosquito-borne ZIKV transmission was reported in the …

Viremia and clinical presentation in Nicaraguan patients infected with Zika virus, chikungunya virus, and dengue virus

JJ Waggoner, L Gresh, MJ Vargas… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Zika virus (ZIKV), chikungunya virus (CHIKV), and dengue virus (DENV)
cocirculate in Nicaragua. In this study, we sought to compare the quantified viremia and …

Field validation of the performance of paper-based tests for the detection of the Zika and chikungunya viruses in serum samples

M Karlikow, SJR da Silva, Y Guo, S Cicek… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
In low-resource settings, resilience to infectious disease outbreaks can be hindered by
limited access to diagnostic tests. Here we report the results of double-blinded studies of the …

Instrument-free point-of-care molecular detection of Zika virus

J Song, MG Mauk, BA Hackett, S Cherry… - Analytical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The recent outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in the Americas and its devastating impact
on fetal development have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the …

A susceptible mouse model for Zika virus infection

SD Dowall, VA Graham, E Rayner… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen which has recently spread beyond Africa
and into Pacific and South American regions. Despite first being detected in 1947, very little …

Co-circulation and simultaneous co-infection of dengue, chikungunya, and zika viruses in patients with febrile syndrome at the Colombian-Venezuelan border

MY Carrillo-Hernández, J Ruiz-Saenz… - BMC infectious …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background In Colombia, the dengue virus (DENV) has been endemic for decades,
and with the recent entry of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV)(2014) and the Zika virus …

The clinically approved antiviral drug sofosbuvir inhibits Zika virus replication

CQ Sacramento, GR de Melo, CS de Freitas… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a member of the Flaviviridae family, along with other agents of clinical
significance such as dengue (DENV) and hepatitis C (HCV) viruses. Since ZIKV causes …