Congenital Zika Virus Infection: Beyond Neonatal Microcephaly.
JAMA Neurology, 2017 Congenital Zika Virus Infection: Beyond Neonatal Microcephaly To the Editor In their timely description on the major central nervous system lesions caused by Zika virus (ZIKV) congenital infection, Melo et al1 reported on the neuroimaging, laboratory ...
M. Leyser, O. Nascimento
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Zika Virus Testing and Outcomes during Pregnancy, Florida, USA, 2016
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Zika virus infection during pregnancy can lead to congenital Zika syndrome. Implementation of screening programs and interpretation of test results can be particularly challenging during ongoing local mosquitoborne transmission.
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Zika Virus infection of rhesus macaques leads to viral persistence in multiple tissues
PLoS Pathogens, 2017 Zika virus (ZIKV), an emerging flavivirus, has recently spread explosively through the Western hemisphere. In addition to symptoms including fever, rash, arthralgia, and conjunctivitis, ZIKV infection of pregnant women can cause microcephaly and other ...
Alec J Hirsch +20 more
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Zika Virus IgM Detection and Neutralizing Antibody Profiles 12–19 Months after Illness Onset
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 Data on the duration of detectable Zika virus–specific IgM in infected persons are limited. Neutralizing antibody cross-reactivity occurs between Zika virus and related flaviviruses, but the degree to which this confounds diagnosis is uncertain.
Isabel Griffin +9 more
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Animal Models of Zika Virus Infection, Pathogenesis, and Immunity
Journal of Virology, 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 ...
T. Morrison, M. Diamond
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Three atypical lethal cases associated with acute Zika virus infection in Suriname
IDCases, 2016 Acute Zika virus infection usually presents with a self-limiting triad of fever, rash and arthritis. There is limited information on severe or lethal cases.
Rens Zonneveld +5 more
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Concurrent outbreaks of dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus infections – an unprecedented epidemic wave of mosquito-borne viruses in the Pacific 2012–2014 [PDF]
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Confidence sets for phylogenetic trees [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Inferring evolutionary histories (phylogenetic trees) has important applications in biology, criminology and public health. However, phylogenetic trees are complex mathematical objects that reside in a non-Euclidean space, which complicates their analysis.
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Global Pandemic Monitoring Board (GPMB) is a group of eminent individuals publishing reports calling for increased emphasis on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR). They advocate for the World Health Organization's (WHO) PPPR preferred approach and its attendant financial requests. Though claiming independence, GPMB is co‐
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Zika Virus Infection and Stillbirths: A Case of Hydrops Fetalis, Hydranencephaly and Fetal Demise
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 Background The rapid spread of Zika virus in the Americas and current outbreak of microcephaly in Brazil has raised attention to the possible deleterious effects that the virus may have on fetuses.
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