Biology & Life Sciences

Zika

Published March 9, 2017 Curated Collections

Zika is an arbovirus infection transmitted by several different species of Aedes mosquitoes, including Aedes aegypti in the New World. Towards the end of 2015, the Pan American Health Organization announced a possible link between zika and congenital birth defects, in particularly a neurodevastating birth defect known as microcephaly. The causal link between zika and microcephaly has still not been confirmed, but preliminary evidence for an association has been found. The impact of zika virus should be treated with the utmost seriousness as the effects could be devastating. In response a call for research on the outbreak and a new PLOS Collection, which will collate research and other resources related to the outbreak, have been launched.

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Zika Virus

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PLOS Pathogens Zika Virus infection of rhesus macaques leads to viral persistence in multiple tissues
March 9, 2017 Alec Hirsch, Jessica Smith, Nicole Haese, Rebecca Broeckel, Christopher Parkins, Craig Krecklywich, Victor DeFilippis, Michael Denton, Patricia Smith, William Messer, Lois Colgin, Rebecca Ducore, Peta Grigsby, Jon Hennebold, Tonya Swanson, Alfred Legasse, Michael Axthelm, Rhonda MacAllister, Clayton Wiley, Jay Nelson, Daniel Streblow
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PLOS Pathogens A novel Zika virus mouse model reveals strain specific differences in virus pathogenesis and host inflammatory immune responses
March 9, 2017 Shashank Tripathi, Vinod Balasubramaniam, Julia Brown, Ignacio Mena, Alesha Grant, Susana Bardina, Kevin Maringer, Megan Schwarz, Ana Maestre, Marion Sourisseau, Randy Albrecht, Florian Krammer, Matthew Evans, Ana Fernandez-Sesma, Jean Lim, Adolfo García-Sastre
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PLOS Medicine Novel Vector Control Approaches: The Future for Prevention of Zika Virus Transmission?
January 17, 2017 Lorenz von Seidlein, Alexander S. Kekulé, Daniel Strickman
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PLOS Medicine How Relevant Is Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus?
October 25, 2016 Christian L. Althaus, Nicola Low
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PLOS Medicine Mosquito-Disseminated Insecticide for Citywide Vector Control and Its Potential to Block Arbovirus Epidemics: Entomological Observations and Modeling Results from Amazonian Brazil
January 17, 2017 Fernando Abad-Franch, Elvira Zamora-Perea, Sérgio L. B. Luz
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PLOS Medicine Zika Virus Infection as a Cause of Congenital Brain Abnormalities and Guillain–Barré Syndrome: Systematic Review
January 3, 2017 Fabienne Krauer, Maurane Riesen, Ludovic Reveiz, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Ruth Martínez-Vega, Teegwendé V. Porgo, Anina Haefliger, Nathalie J. Broutet, WHO Zika Causality Working Group , Nicola Low
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Dispersal of male and female Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes using stable isotope enrichment
January 30, 2017 Matthew C. I. Medeiros, Emily C. Boothe, E. Brendan Roark, Gabriel L. Hamer
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Hydrocephalus and arthrogryposis in an immunocompetent mouse model of ZIKA teratogeny: A developmental study
February 23, 2017 Jose Xavier-Neto, Murilo Carvalho, Bruno dos Santos Pascoalino, Alisson Campos Cardoso, Ângela Maria Sousa Costa, Ana Helena Macedo Pereira, Luana Nunes Santos, Ângela Saito, Rafael Elias Marques, Juliana Helena Costa Smetana, Silvio Roberto Consonni, Carla Bandeira, Vivian Vasconcelos Costa, Marcio Chaim Bajgelman, Paulo Sérgio Lopes de Oliveira, Marli Tenorio Cordeiro, Laura Helena Vega Gonzales Gil, Bianca Alves Pauletti, Daniela Campos Granato, Adriana Franco Paes Leme, Lucio Freitas-Junior, Carolina Borsoi Moraes Holanda de Freitas, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Estela Bevilacqua, Kleber Franchini
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PLOS Pathogens Analysis of the T Cell Response to Zika Virus and Identification of a Novel CD8⁺ T Cell Epitope in Immunocompetent Mice
February 23, 2017 Ryan Pardy, Maaran Rajah, Stephanie Condotta, Nathan Taylor, Selena Sagan, Martin Richer
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PLOS Pathogens Zika (PRVABC59) Infection Is Associated with T cell Infiltration and Neurodegeneration in CNS of Immunocompetent Neonatal C57Bl/6 Mice
November 17, 2016 Mohanraj Manangeeswaran, Derek D. C. Ireland, Daniela Verthelyi
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PLOS Pathogens Zika Virus Antagonizes Type I Interferon Responses during Infection of Human Dendritic Cells
February 2, 2017 James R. Bowen, Kendra M. Quicke, Mohan S. Maddur, Justin T. O’Neal, Circe E. McDonald, Nadia B. Fedorova, Vinita Puri, Reed S. Shabman, Bali Pulendran, Mehul S. Suthar
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Engineered Aedes aegypti JAK/STAT Pathway-Mediated Immunity to Dengue Virus
January 12, 2017 Natapong Jupatanakul, Shuzhen Sim, Yesseinia I. Angleró-Rodríguez, Jayme Souza-Neto, Suchismita Das, Kristin E. Poti, Shannan L. Rossi, Nicholas Bergren, Nikos Vasilakis, George Dimopoulos
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Prevalence of Antibodies to Zika Virus in Mothers from Hawaii Who Delivered Babies with and without Microcephaly between 2009-2012
December 20, 2016 Mukesh Kumar, Lauren Ching, Joshua Astern, Eunjung Lim, Alexander J. Stokes, Marian Melish, Vivek R. Nerurkar
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Neuropathogenesis of Zika Virus in a Highly Susceptible Immunocompetent Mouse Model after Antibody Blockade of Type I Interferon
January 9, 2017 Darci R. Smith, Bradley Hollidge, Sharon Daye, Xiankun Zeng, Candace Blancett, Kyle Kuszpit, Thomas Bocan, Jeff W. Koehler, Susan Coyne, Tim Minogue, Tara Kenny, Xiaoli Chi, Soojin Yim, Lynn Miller, Connie Schmaljohn, Sina Bavari, Joseph W. Golden
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Defining the Risk of Zika and Chikungunya Virus Transmission in Human Population Centers of the Eastern United States
January 17, 2017 Carrie A. Manore, Richard S. Ostfeld, Folashade B. Agusto, Holly Gaff, Shannon L. LaDeau
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Forecasting Zika Incidence in the 2016 Latin America Outbreak Combining Traditional Disease Surveillance with Search, Social Media, and News Report Data
January 13, 2017 Sarah F. McGough, John S. Brownstein, Jared B. Hawkins, Mauricio Santillana
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases OpenZika: An IBM World Community Grid Project to Accelerate Zika Virus Drug Discovery
October 20, 2016 Sean Ekins, Alexander L. Perryman, Carolina Horta Andrade
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Virus, a New Threat for Europe?
August 9, 2016 Henri Jupille, Gonçalo Seixas, Laurence Mousson, Carla A. Sousa, Anna-Bella Failloux
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Nonstructural Proteins Are Preferential Positive Selection Targets in Zika Virus and Related Flaviviruses
September 2, 2016 Manuela Sironi, Diego Forni, Mario Clerici, Rachele Cagliani
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases An Ecological Assessment of the Pandemic Threat of Zika Virus
August 26, 2016 Colin J. Carlson, Eric R. Dougherty, Wayne Getz
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Fetal Neuropathogenesis: Etiology of a Viral Syndrome
August 25, 2016 Zachary A. Klase, Svetlana Khakhina, Adriano De Bernardi Schneider, Michael V. Callahan, Jill Glasspool-Malone, Robert Malone
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Working with Zika and Usutu Viruses In Vitro
August 19, 2016 Kelli L. Barr, Benjamin D. Anderson, Dhani Prakoso, Maureen T. Long
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Culex quinquefasciatus from Rio de Janeiro Is Not Competent to Transmit the Local Zika Virus
September 6, 2016 Rosilainy Fernandes, Stéphanie Campos, Anielly Brito, Rafaella Miranda, Keli Barbosa da Silva, Marcia Castro, Lidiane Raphael, Patrícia Brasil, Anna-Bella Failloux, Myrna Bonaldo, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira
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PLOS Biology Preventing Zika Virus Infection during Pregnancy Using a Seasonal Window of Opportunity for Conception
July 28, 2016 Micaela Elvira Martinez
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Utility of a Dengue-Derived Monoclonal Antibody to Enhance Zika Infection In Vitro
July 5, 2016 Anu Susan Charles, Rebecca C. Christofferson
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Isolation of Infective Zika Virus from Urine and Saliva of Patients in Brazil
June 24, 2016 Myrna C. Bonaldo, Ieda P. Ribeiro, Noemia S. Lima, Alexandre A. C. dos Santos, Lidiane S. R. Menezes, Stephanie O. D. da Cruz, Iasmim S. de Mello, Nathália D. Furtado, Elaine E. de Moura, Luana Damasceno, Kely A. B. da Silva, Marcia G. de Castro, Alexandra L. Gerber, Luiz G. P. de Almeida, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ana Tereza R. Vasconcelos, Patrícia Brasil
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases ZIKV – CDB: A Collaborative Database to Guide Research Linking SncRNAs and ZIKA Virus Disease Symptoms
June 22, 2016 Victor Satler Pylro, Francislon Silva Oliveira, Daniel Kumazawa Morais, Sara Cuadros-Orellana, Fabiano Sviatopolk-Mirsky Pais, Julliane Dutra Medeiros, Juliana Assis Geraldo, Jack Gilbert, Angela Cristina Volpini, Gabriel Rocha Fernandes
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Digital Participatory Surveillance and the Zika Crisis: Opportunities and Caveats
June 13, 2016 Claudia Pagliari, Santosh Vijaykumar
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks FLIRT-ing with Zika: A Web Application to Predict the Movement of Infected Travelers Validated Against the Current Zika Virus Epidemic
June 10, 2016 Andrew Huff, Toph Allen, Karissa Whiting, Nathan Breit, Brock Arnold
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Dengue Vaccine: Considerations before Rollout in Colombia
June 9, 2016 Christian Julian Villabona-Arenas, Raquel Elvira Ocazionez Jimenez, Cinthy Lorena Jimenez Silva
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Radiological Characterization of Cerebral Phenotype in Newborn Microcephaly Cases from 2015 Outbreak in Brazil
June 8, 2016 Yuri Raoni Ramalho Rocha, José Ricardo Cavalcanti Costa, Pericles Almeida Costa, Gessica Maia, Rafael de Medeiros Vasconcelos, Cynthia Ramos Tejo, Rafaella Martins Batista, Manoel Lima Neto, Gustavo Graco Martins de Lima, Francisco Negromonte, Marcelle Borba, Selma Maria Bezerra Jeronimo, Eduardo Bouth Sequerra, Manuel Moreira Neto
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases First International Workshop on Zika Virus Held by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation FIOCRUZ in Northeast Brazil March 2016 – A Meeting Report
June 3, 2016 Rafael F. O. Franca, Maria Helena L. Neves, Constancia F. Junqueira Ayres, Osvaldo P. Melo-Neto, Sinval P. Brandão Filho
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Control of Urban Zika Vectors: Should We Return to the Successful PAHO/WHO Strategy?
June 1, 2016 Paul Reiter
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Using Phenomenological Models to Characterize Transmissibility and Forecast Patterns and Final Burden of Zika Epidemics
May 31, 2016 Gerardo Chowell, Doracelly Hincapie-Palacio, Juan Ospina, Bruce Pell, Amna Tariq, Sushma Dahal, Seyed Moghadas, Alexandra Smirnova, Lone Simonsen, Cécile Viboud
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Travel Volume to the United States from Countries and U.S. Territories with Local Zika Virus Transmission
May 31, 2016 Bradley Nelson, Stephanie Morrison, Heather Joseph, Abbey Wojno, R. Ryan Lash, Yoni Haber, Andre Berro, Martin Cetron, Ardath Grills
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika in the United States of America and a Fateful 1969 Decision
May 26, 2016 Peter J. Hotez
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Genetically Modified (GM) Mosquito Use to Reduce Mosquito-Transmitted Disease in the US: A Community Opinion Survey
May 25, 2016 Amesh Adalja, Tara Kirk Sell, Meghan McGinty, Crystal Boddie
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases A Cost-Effectiveness Tool for Informing Policies on Zika Virus Control
May 20, 2016 Jorge Alfaro-Murillo, Alyssa Parpia, Meagan Fitzpatrick, Jules Tamagnan, Jan Medlock, Martial Ndeffo-Mbah, Durland Fish, María Ávila-Agüero, Rodrigo Marín, Albert Ko, Alison Galvani
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Transmission Dynamics of Zika Virus in Island Populations: A Modelling Analysis of the 2013–14 French Polynesia Outbreak
May 17, 2016 Adam J. Kucharski, Sebastian Funk, Rosalind M. Eggo, Henri-Pierre Mallet, W. John Edmunds, Eric J. Nilles
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The Viral Polymerase Inhibitor 7-Deaza-2’-C-Methyladenosine Is a Potent Inhibitor of In Vitro Zika Virus Replication and Delays Disease Progression in a Robust Mouse Infection Model
May 10, 2016 Joanna Zmurko, Rafael E. Marques, Dominique Schols, Erik Verbeken, Suzanne J.F. Kaptein, Johan Neyts
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Zika Virus, Elevation, and Transmission Risk
May 9, 2016 A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Osorio, Huijie Qiao, Luis E. Escobar
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Clinical and Epidemiological Characterization of Laboratory-Confirmed Autochthonous Cases of Zika Virus Disease in Mexico
April 15, 2016 Maria Eugenia Jimenez Corona, Ana Lucía De la Garza Barroso, Jose Cruz Rodriguez Martínez, Norma Irene Luna Guzmán, Cuitláhuac Ruiz Matus, José Alberto Díaz Quiñonez, Irma Lopez Martinez, Pablo A. Kuri Morales
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Virus: A New Animal Model for an Arbovirus
May 5, 2016 M. Javad Aman, Fatah Kashanchi
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases A Susceptible Mouse Model for Zika Virus Infection
May 5, 2016 Stuart Dowall, Victoria Graham, Emma Rayner, Barry Atkinson, Graham Hall, Robert Watson, Andrew Bosworth, Laura Bonney, Samantha Kitchen, Roger Hewson
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Spread of the Invasive Mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in the Black Sea Region Increases Risk of Chikungunya, Dengue, and Zika Outbreaks in Europe
April 26, 2016 Muhammet Akiner, Berna Demirci, Giorgi Babuadze, Vincent Robert, Francis Schaffner
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Virus: A New Animal Model for an Arbovirus
May 5, 2016 M. Aman, Fatah Kashanchi
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Virus Outbreak in Haiti in 2014: Molecular and Clinical Data
April 25, 2016 John Lednicky, Valerie Beau de Rochars, Maha El Badry, Julia Loeb, Taina Telisma, Sonese Chavannes, Gina Anilis, Eleonora Cella, Massimo Ciccozzi, Mohammed Rashid, Bernard Okech, Marco Salemi, J. Glenn Morris Jr.
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Characterization of Lethal Zika Virus Infection in AG129 Mice
April 19, 2016 Matthew Aliota, Elizabeth Caine, Emma Walker, Katrina Larkin, Erwin Camacho, Jorge Osorio
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Virus Outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Clinical Characterization, Epidemiological and Virological Aspects
April 12, 2016 Patrícia Brasil, Guilherme Calvet, André Siqueira, Mayumi Wakimoto, Patrícia de Sequeira, Aline Nobre, Marcel Quintana, Marco Cesar Mendonça, Otilia Lupi, Rogerio de Souza, Carolina Romero, Heruza Zogbi, Clarisse Bressan, Simone Alves, Ricardo de Oliveira, Rita Nogueira, Marília Carvalho, Ana Maria de Filippis, Thomas Jaenisch
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The Zika Pandemic – A Perfect Storm?
March 17, 2016 Philip Russell
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States
March 16, 2016 Andrew J. Monaghan, Cory W. Morin, Daniel F. Steinhoff, Olga Wilhelmi, Mary Hayden, Dale A. Quattrochi, Michael Reiskind, Alun L. Lloyd, Kirk Smith, Chris A. Schmidt, Paige E. Scalf, Kacey Ernst
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Unintended Pregnancies in Brazil – A Challenge for the Recommendation to Delay Pregnancy Due to Zika
March 16, 2016 Cynthia Schuck-Paim, Daniel López, Lone Simonsen, Wladimir Alonso
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Differential Susceptibilities of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus from the Americas to Zika Virus
March 3, 2016 Thais Chouin-Carneiro, Anubis Vega-Rua, Marie Vazeille, André Yebakima, Romain Girod, Daniella Goindin, Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Anna-Bella Failloux
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Virus: Medical Countermeasure Development Challenges
March 1, 2016 Robert Malone, Jane Homan, Michael Callahan, Jill Glasspool-Malone, Lambodhar Damodaran, Adriano Schneider, Rebecca Zimler, James Talton, Ronald Cobb, Ivan Ruzic, Julie Smith-Gagen, Daniel Janies, James Wilson
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Virus Infection and Stillbirths: A Case of Hydrops Fetalis, Hydranencephaly and Fetal Demise
February 25, 2016 Manoel Sarno, Gielson Sacramento, Ricardo Khouri, Mateus do Rosário, Federico Costa, Gracinda Archanjo, Luciane Santos, Nivison Nery, Jr., Nikos Vasilakis, Albert Ko, Antonio de Almeida
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WHO Bulletin Microcephaly in northeastern Brazil: a review of 16,208 births between 2012 and 2015
February 4, 2016 Soares de Araújo JS, Regis CT, Gomes RGS, Tavares TR, Rocha dos Santos C, Assunção PM, et al.
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Deltamethrin Resistance Mechanisms in Aedes aegypti Populations from Three French Overseas Territories Worldwide
November 20, 2015 Isabelle Dusfour, Pilar Zorrilla, Amandine Guidez, Jean Issaly, Romain Girod, Laurent Guillaumot, Carlos Robello, Clare Strode
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PLOS ONE Zika Virus Emergence in Mosquitoes in Southeastern Senegal, 2011
October 13, 2014 Diawo Diallo, Amadou A. Sall, Cheikh T. Diagne, Oumar Faye, Ousmane Faye, Yamar Ba, Kathryn A. Hanley, Michaela Buenemann, Scott C. Weaver, Mawlouth Diallo
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PLOS ONE Integrating the Public in Mosquito Management: Active Education by Community Peers Can Lead to Significant Reduction in Peridomestic Container Mosquito Habitats
September 25, 2014 Kristen Healy, George Hamilton, Taryn Crepeau, Sean Healy, Isik Unlu, Ary Farajollahi, Dina M. Fonseca
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Aedes hensilli as a Potential Vector of Chikungunya and Zika Viruses
October 9, 2014 Jeremy P. Ledermann, Laurent Guillaumot, Lawrence Yug, Steven C. Saweyog, Mary Tided, Paul Machieng, Moses Pretrick, Maria Marfel, Anne Griggs, Martin Bel, Mark R. Duffy, W. Thane Hancock, Tai Ho-Chen, Ann M. Powers
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PLOS Currents Outbreaks Imported Zika Virus Infection from the Cook Islands into Australia, 2014
June 2, 2014 Alyssa T. Pyke, Michelle T. Daly, Jane N. Cameron, Peter R. Moore, Carmel T. Taylor, Glen R. Hewitson, Jan L. Humphreys, Richard Gair
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika Virus in Gabon (Central Africa) – 2007: A New Threat from Aedes albopictus?
February 6, 2014 Gilda Grard, Mélanie Caron, Illich Manfred Mombo, Dieudonné Nkoghe, Statiana Mboui Ondo, Davy Jiolle, Didier Fontenille, Christophe Paupy, Eric Maurice Leroy
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Molecular Evolution of Zika Virus during Its Emergence in the 20^th Century
January 9, 2014 Oumar Faye, Caio C. M. Freire, Atila Iamarino, Ousmane Faye, Juliana Velasco C. de Oliveira, Mawlouth Diallo, Paolo M. A. Zanotto, Amadou Alpha Sall
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse): A Potential Vector of Zika Virus in Singapore
August 1, 2013 Pei-Sze Jeslyn Wong, Mei-zhi Irene Li, Chee-Seng Chong, Lee-Ching Ng, Cheong-Huat Tan
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Oral Susceptibility of Singapore Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) to Zika Virus
August 28, 2012 MeiZhi Irene Li, Pei Sze Jeslyn Wong, Lee Ching Ng, Cheong Huat Tan
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Genetic Characterization of Zika Virus Strains: Geographic Expansion of the Asian Lineage
February 28, 2012 Andrew D. Haddow, Amy J. Schuh, Chadwick Y. Yasuda, Matthew R. Kasper, Vireak Heang, Rekol Huy, Hilda Guzman, Robert B. Tesh, Scott C. Weaver

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