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Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2017 Background: In May 2015, Zika virus was detected in Brazil. The virus has since spread through several countries in the Americas. Knowledge of the major symptoms of Zika virus infection was based on historic data from two previous outbreaks in the ...
Ashton Thompson
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KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF MIDWIVES REGARDING ZIKA VIRUS IN KENDARI, SOUTHEAST SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Public Health of Indonesia, 2020 Background: In 2016 Zika virus infection became an international public health emergency concern. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and practice of midwives regarding the Zika virus.
Ramadhan Tosepu +5 more
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Zika Virus Infection, Basic and Clinical Aspects: A Review Article
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: Zika virus infection has recently attracted the attention of medical community. While clinical manifestations of the infection in adult cases are not severe and disease is not associated with high mortality rates, Zika virus infection can ...
Farshid NOORBAKHSH +10 more
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Zika Virus RNA Replication and Persistence in Brain and Placental Tissue
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 Zika virus is causally linked with congenital microcephaly and may be associated with pregnancy loss. However, the mechanisms of Zika virus intrauterine transmission and replication and its tropism and persistence in tissues are poorly understood.
Julu Bhatnagar +19 more
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Detailed Analyses of Zika Virus Tropism in
mBio, 2020 The role of Culex quinquefasciatus in Zika virus transmission has been debated since the epidemic of Zika occurred in the Americas in 2015 to 2016. The majority of studies have found no evidence that C.
Hannah J. MacLeod, George Dimopoulos
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Cleft analysis of Zika virus non-structural protein 1
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2017 The non-structural protein 1 is an important molecule of the viruses in flavivirus group including to Zika virus. Recently, the NS1 of Zika virus was discovered.
Somsri Wiwanitkit, Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Projecting Month of Birth for At-Risk Infants after Zika Virus Disease Outbreaks
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 The marked increase in infants born with microcephaly in Brazil after a 2015 outbreak of Zika virus (Zika virus) disease suggests an association between maternal Zika virus infection and congenital microcephaly.
Jennita Reefhuis +9 more
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Zika: what we do and do not know based on the experiences of Brazil [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2016 OBJECTIVES: Zika virus, which was first discovered in 1947, has become a global threat to human health as it is rapidly spreading through Latin America, the Caribbean, the US and Asia, after causing a large outbreak in the Northeast region of Brazil in ...
Cristina Possas
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Risk of Zika virus transmission by blood donations in Brazil
Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy, 2018 Background: Zika, a disease caused by Zika virus infections, has recently emerged and caused outbreaks in many parts of the world. The clinical manifestations of Zika are usually mild, mostly presenting as an exanthematic febrile disease, but on some ...
Mariana Munari Magnus +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Zika virus infection during pregnancy is associated with miscarriage and with a broad spectrum of fetal and neonatal developmental abnormalities collectively known as congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). Symptomology of CZS includes malformations of the brain
Rosemary J Steinbach +33 more
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