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The Impact of Mobility between Rural Areas and Forests on the Spread of Zika [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
A mathematical model of Zika virus transmission incorporating human movement between rural areas and nearby forests is presented to investigate the role of human movement in the spread of Zika virus infections in human and mosquito populations. Proportions of both susceptible and infected humans living in rural areas are assumed to move to nearby ...
arxiv  

Prenatal Ultrasound Findings of Pregnancy Associated with Zika Virus Infection

Journal of Medical Ultrasound, 2016
The outbreak of Zika virus followed by an increase in cases of fetal microcephaly in Brazil in 2015 has raised the concern of the association of Zika virus infection with fetal microcephaly and other central nervous system (CNS) malformations.
Yen-Ni Chen, Chih-Ping Chen, Chen-Ju Lin, Shin-Wen Chen   +3 more
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Knowledge, Awareness, and Perception of Community Pharmacists to Zika Virus Infection in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Health Services Insights, 2020
Background: Zika fever is a mosquito-borne disease with global health concern. It has been underreported or misdiagnosed due to its unspecific clinical manifestations, including mild-influenza like and subclinical symptoms.
Kah Yee Lim, Hong-Wai Tham
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome Associated with Zika Virus Infection in Colombia.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2016
BACKGROUND Zika virus (ZIKV) infection has been linked to the Guillain-Barré syndrome. From November 2015 through March 2016, clusters of cases of the Guillain-Barré syndrome were observed during the outbreak of ZIKV infection in Colombia.
B. Parra, Jairo Lizarazo, J. A. Jimenez-Arango, A. Zea-Vera, G. González-Manrique, J. Vargas, Jorge Angarita, Gonzalo Zuñiga, R. López-González, Cindy L. Beltran, Karen H Rizcala, M. T. Morales, Óscar Pacheco, Martha L Ospina, Anupama Kumar, D. Cornblath, Laura S. Muñoz, L. Osorio, Paula Barreras, C. Pardo   +19 more
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Zika virus infection complicated by Guillain-Barre syndrome--case report, French Polynesia, December 2013.

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2014
Zika fever, considered as an emerging disease of arboviral origin, because of its expanding geographic area, is known as a benign infection usually presenting as an influenza-like illness with cutaneous rash. So far, Zika virus infection has never led to
E. Oehler, L. Watrin, P. Larre, I. Leparc-Goffart, S. Lastère, F. Valour, Laure Baudouin, H. Mallet, D. Musso, F. Ghawché   +9 more
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Presence and Persistence of Zika Virus RNA in Semen, United Kingdom, 2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
Zika virus RNA has been detected in semen collected several months after onset of symptoms of infection. Given the potential for sexual transmission of Zika virus and for serious fetal abnormalities resulting from infection during pregnancy, information ...
Barry Atkinson, Fiona Thorburn, Christina Petridou, Daniel Bailey, Roger Hewson, Andrew J.H. Simpson, Timothy J.G. Brooks, Emma J. Aarons   +7 more
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An overview of Zika virus genotypes and their infectivity

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2022
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an enveloped, single-stranded RNA arbovirus belonging to the genus Flavivirus. It was first isolated from a sentinel monkey in Uganda in 1947. More recently, ZIKV has undergone rapid geographic expansion and has been responsible for outbreaks in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and America.
Lucas Coêlho Bernardo-Menezes, Almerinda Agrelli, Ana Sofia Lima Estevão de Oliveira, Ronald Rodrigues de Moura, Sergio Crovella, Lucas André Cavalcanti Brandão   +5 more
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Prevention and control of Zika fever as a mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted disease [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2016 6: 28070, 2016
The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic poses a major global public health emergency. It is known that ZIKV is spread by \textit{Aedes} mosquitoes, recent studies show that ZIKV can also be transmitted via sexual contact and cases of sexually transmitted ZIKV have been confirmed in the U.S., France, and Italy.
arxiv   +1 more source

Congenital Zika Virus Infection: a Review with Emphasis on the Spectrum of Brain Abnormalities

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 2020
In 2016, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern following a cluster of associated neurological disorders and neonatal malformations.
Leão Vhp, MM Aragão, RS Pinho, A. Hazin, AR Paciorkowski, A. Penalva de Oliveira, M. Masruha   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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. Methods: This research was an analytic study with
Ramadhan Tosepu, Indri Eka Artamevia Khaerun Nisa Patawari, Hariati Lestari, Siti Rabbani Karimuna, La Ode Muhamad Sety, Fifi Nirmala   +5 more
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