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Zika virus proteins at an atomic scale: how does structural biology help us to understand and develop vaccines and drugs against Zika virus infection?

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
In Brazil and in other tropical areas Zika virus infection was directly associated with clinical complications as microcephaly in newborn children whose mothers were infected during pregnancy and the Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults.
Ana Paula Valente, Adolfo Henrique Moraes   +1 more
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Fetal Infection by Zika Virus in the Third Trimester: Report of 2 Cases [PDF]

, 2016
Antônio Soares Souza, Cristiane Moraes Dias, Fernanda Del Campo Braojos Braga, Ana Carolina Bernardes Terzian, Cássia Fernanda Estofolete, Antônio Hélio Oliani, Gustavo Henrique Oliveira, Cinara Cássia Brandão de Mattos, Luíz Carlos de Mattos, Maurício Lacerda Nogueira, Denise Cristina Mós Vaz-Oliani   +10 more
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Host‐feeding preferences of Culex pipiens and its potential significance for flavivirus transmission in the Camargue, France

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
We identified Culex pipiens bloodmeals at the species level in natural, agricultural and peri‐urban habitats and calculated host preferences based on forage ratios. This analysis showed Passeriformes, and in particular Columba livia, Passer montanus and Turdus sp., to be the preferred Cx. pipiens hosts.
Víctor Rodríguez‐Valencia, Marie‐Marie Olive, Gilbert Le Goff, Marine Faisse, Marie Bourel, Grégory L'Ambert, Benjamin Vollot, María José Tolsá‐García, Christophe Paupy, David Roiz   +9 more
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of women of childbearing age testing negative for Zika virus in Kentucky, 2016

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2018
Because infection with Zika virus during pregnancy can cause microcephaly and other birth defects, women of childbearing age are an important population for targeting of Zika-related public health messaging.
Kristen Heitzinger, Douglas A. Thoroughman, Kimberly A. Porter   +2 more
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Estimating risks of importation and local transmission of Zika virus infection [PDF]

, 2016
Kyeongah Nah, Kenji Mizumoto, Yuichiro Miyamatsu, Yohei Yasuda, Ryo Kinoshita, Hiroshi Nishiura   +5 more
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Political identity and risk politics: Evidence from a pandemic

Risk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract The way political identity serves as a foundation for political polarization in the United States permits elites to extend conflict rapidly to new issue areas. Further, the types of cognitive mechanisms and shortcuts used in the politically polarized information environment are similar to some of those used in risk perception.
Eric D. Raile, Pavielle Haines, Amber N. W. Raile, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, David C. W. Parker   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Media amplification under the floodlight: Contextualizing 20 years of US risk news

Risk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper addresses the question of identifying and distinguishing risk amplification incidents and patterns in the news media. To meet this objective, our study incorporates a novel “floodlight” approach utilizing the Society for Risk Analysis Glossary in conjunction with topic modeling and time‐series analysis, to investigate risk‐focused ...
Cormac Bryce, Michael Dowling, Suwan (Cheng) Long, Jamie K. Wardman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Posting environmental risk: Communicating with numerical and nonnumerical messaging across information modalities

Risk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract Risk communicators frequently engage members of the public through social media; therefore, it is important to understand how to effectively communicate risks about environmental and health issues. This experiment with U.S. adults (N = 737) explored how message features in risk‐focused social media posts—namely, message modality (text‐only ...
Megan L. P. Norman, Jiaqi Agnes Bao, Triwik Kurniasari, Chris Skurka   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zika virus infection and pregnancy: what we do and do not know [PDF]

, 2016
Carlo Ticconi, Adalgisa Pietropolli, Giovanni Rezza   +2 more
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Transient Hearing Loss in Adults Associated with Zika Virus Infection [PDF]

, 2016
Eriko S. Vinhaes, Luciane Amorim Santos, Lislane Dias, Nilvano Alves de Andrade, Victor Hugo Braz Bezerra, Anderson T. de Carvalho, Laíse de Moraes, Daniele Freitas Henriques, Sasha R. Azar, Nikos Vasilakis, Albert I. Ko, Bruno B. Andrade, Isadora Cristina de Siqueira, Ricardo Khouri, Viviane Boaventura   +14 more
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