Zika virus

D Musso, DJ Gubler - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) in the genus Flavivirus and the
family Flaviviridae. ZIKV was first isolated from a nonhuman primate in 1947 and from …

Zika virus

LR Petersen, DJ Jamieson, AM Powers… - New England Journal …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
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[HTML][HTML] A literature review of Zika virus

AR Plourde, EM Bloch - Emerging infectious diseases, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Zika virus is a mosquitoborne flavivirus that is the focus of an ongoing pandemic and public
health emergency. Previously limited to sporadic cases in Africa and Asia, the emergence of …

The emergence of arthropod-borne viral diseases: A global prospective on dengue, chikungunya and zika fevers

SV Mayer, RB Tesh, N Vasilakis - Acta tropica, 2017 - Elsevier
Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) present a substantial threat to human and animal
health worldwide. Arboviruses can cause a variety of clinical presentations that range from …

Ocular findings in infants with microcephaly associated with presumed Zika virus congenital infection in Salvador, Brazil

B de Paula Freitas, JR de Oliveira Dias… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The Zika virus (ZIKV) has rapidly reached epidemic proportions, especially in
northeastern Brazil, and has rapidly spread to other parts of the Americas. A recent increase …

Zika virus in the Americas: early epidemiological and genetic findings

NR Faria, RSS Azevedo, MUG Kraemer, R Souza… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Brazil has experienced an unprecedented epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV), with~ 30,000 cases
reported to date. ZIKV was first detected in Brazil in May 2015, and cases of microcephaly …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of Zika virus in urine

AC Gourinat, O O'Connor, E Calvez… - Emerging infectious …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We describe the kinetics of Zika virus (ZIKV) detection in serum and urine samples of 6
patients. Urine samples were positive for ZIKV> 10 days after onset of disease, which was a …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus infection complicated by Guillain-Barre syndrome–case report, French Polynesia, December 2013

E Oehler, L Watrin, P Larre, I Leparc-Goffart… - …, 2014 - eurosurveillance.org
Zika fever, considered as an emerging disease of arboviral origin, because of its expanding
geographic area, is known as a benign infection usually presenting as an influenza-like …

[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 …

Evidence of perinatal transmission of Zika virus, French Polynesia, December 2013 and February 2014

M Besnard, S Lastere, A Teissier… - …, 2014 - eurosurveillance.org
Evidence of perinatal transmission of Zika virus, French Polynesia, December 2013 and
February 2014 Page 1 1 www.eurosurveillance.org Rapid communications Evidence of …