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Use of Urea Wash ELISA to Distinguish Zika and Dengue Virus Infections
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Serologic testing remains crucial for Zika virus diagnosis. We found that urea wash in a Zika virus nonstructural protein 1 IgG ELISA distinguishes secondary dengue virus infection from Zika virus infection with previous dengue (sensitivity 87.5 ...
Wen-Yang Tsai +9 more
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Persistent Zika Virus Detection in Semen in a Traveler Returning to the United Kingdom from Brazil, 2016. [PDF]
, 2017 Zika virus is normally transmitted by mosquitos, but cases of sexual transmission have been reported. We describe a patient with symptomatic Zika virus infection in whom the virus was detected in semen for 92 days.
Checkley, Anna M +3 more
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Potential Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015 In December 2013, during a Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in French Polynesia, a patient in Tahiti sought treatment for hematospermia, and ZIKV was isolated from his semen. ZIKV transmission by sexual intercourse has been previously suspected.
D. Musso +5 more
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Distinct Zika Virus Lineage in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 Sequencing of isolates from patients in Bahia, Brazil, where most Zika virus cases in Brazil have been reported, resulted in 11 whole and partial Zika virus genomes. Phylogenetic analyses revealed a well-supported Bahia-specific Zika virus lineage, which
Samia N. Naccache +10 more
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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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Maternal Zika Virus Infection in the First Trimester and Fetal Stigmata in the Third Trimester
Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2023 Zika is a flavivirus that is transmitted primarily by the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito. It can also be transmitted by blood transfusion, sexual contact, and from an infected mother to the unborn baby.
Divya Singh, Ladbans Kaur
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How do medical researchers make causal inferences? [PDF]
, 2019 Bradford Hill (1965) highlighted nine aspects of the complex evidential situation a medical researcher faces when determining whether a causal relation exists between a disease and various conditions associated with it.
Dammann, Olaf +2 more
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Nature Immunology, 2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) was discovered in 1947 and was thought to lead to relatively mild disease. The recent explosive outbreak of ZIKV in South America has led to widespread concern, with reports of neurological sequelae ranging from Guillain Barré syndrome ...
W. Dejnirattisai +11 more
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Médecine et Santé Tropicales, 2016 Since its discovery in 1947 in Uganda, the Zika virus (ZIKV) remained in the shadows emerging in 2007 in Micronesia, where hundreds of dengue-like syndromes were reported. Then, in 2013-2014, it was rife in French Polynesia, where the first neurological effects were observed.
de Laval, Franck +5 more
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Animal models of Zika virus infection, pathogenesis, and immunity [PDF]
, 2017 Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-transmitted flavivirus that now causes epidemics affecting millions of people on multiple continents. The virus has received global attention because of some of its unusual epidemiological and clinical features ...
Diamond, Michael S, Morrison, Thomas E
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