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    • Zika virus infection in French Polynesia 

      France. Université Pierre et Marie Curie; France. Hôpital d’Instruction des Armées Laveran; French Polynesia. Centre Hospitalier Territorial (2016-06)
      On Feb 1, WHO issued an alert1 on the potential fetal consequences of the Zika virus outbreak after the Brazilian authorities reported an abnormal increase in the number of cases of neonates born with microcephaly.2 Although ...

    • Zika virus infection in man 

      Simpson, D.I.H. (1964)
      1. A strain of Zika virus was isolated from an adult male. 2. The clinical picture of the infection was that of a mild febrile illness of short duration accompanied by a generalized maculopapular rash. 3. A rise in antibody ...

    • Zika virus infection in pregnant women in Barcelona, Spain 

      Bocanegra, C.; Sulleiro, E.; Soriano-Arandes, A.; et al. (2016-06)
      We describe here the first pregnant women described with Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in Europe. One of the cases was a probable coinfection with dengue virus (DENV) and the most prolonged viraemia ever reported. We communicate ...

    • Zika virus infection in pregnant women in Honduras 

      Buekens, Pierre; Alger, Jackeline; Althab, Fernando; et al. (2016-07)
      Background: Although there is increasing evidence for a relationship between symptomatic Zika virus (ZIKV) maternal infection, and microcephaly, a firm causal relation has yet to be established by epidemiologic studies. ...

    • Zika virus infection in pregnant women in Honduras 

      Buekens, Pierre; Alger, Jackeline; Althabe, Fernando; et al. (2016-07)
      Background: Although there is increasing evidence for a relationship between symptomatic Zika virus (ZIKV) maternal infection, and microcephaly, a firm causal relation has yet to be established by epidemiologic studies. ...

    • Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women in Rio de Janeiro 

      Brasil, Patrícia; Pereira, José P.; Moreira, Elisabeth; et al. (2016-06)
      BACKGROUND Zika virus (ZIKV) has been linked to central nervous system malformations in fetuses. To characterize the spectrum of ZIKV disease in pregnant women and infants, we followed patients in Rio de Janeiro to describe ...

    • Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women in Rio de Janeiro - Preliminary Report 

      Brasil, Patrícia; Pereira Jr., José P.; Moreira, M. Elisabeth; et al. (2016-06)
      Background Zika virus (ZIKV) has been linked to neonatal microcephaly. To characterize the spectrum of ZIKV disease in pregnancy, we followed patients in Rio de Janeiro to describe clinical manifestations in mothers and ...

    • Zika virus infection of the central nervous system of mice 

      Bell, T M; Field, E J; Narang, H K (1971)
      Intracerebral inoculation of newborn and 5-week-old mice with Zika virus resulted in an early and marked enlargement of astroglial cells with patchy destruction of the pyriform cells of Ammon's horn. Replication of the ...

    • Zika Virus Infection Presenting with Postauricular Lymphadenopathy 

      Weitzel, Thomas; Cortes, Claudia P. (2016-06)
      A 28-year-old, otherwise healthy Chilean man presented in December 2015 with fever, headache, and myalgia. He had returned, 2 days ago, from a tourist trip to Colombia, where he had visited Bogota and the northern region ...

    • Zika Virus Infection with Prolonged Maternal Viremia and Fetal Brain Abnormalities 

      RW, Driggers; CY, Ho; EM, Korhonen; et al. (2016-06)
      The current outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection has been associated with an apparent increased risk of congenital microcephaly. We describe a case of a pregnant woman and her fetus infected with ZIKV during the 11th ...

    • Zika Virus Infection's Neonatal and Pediatric Consequences in French Department of America (ZIKA-DFA-BB) 

      Hoen, Bruno; Flechelles, Olivier (2016-06)
      The Zika epidemic has spread into the three French Overseas Departments in the Caribbean (DFAs). It is therefore urgent to set up tools to collect clinical and paraclinical data for the evaluation of potential complications ...

    • Zika Virus Infection's Pregnancy Consequences in French Department of America (ZIKA-DFA-FE) 

      Hoen, Bruno (2016-06)
      The Zika (ZIKV) epidemic has spread into the three French Overseas Departments in the Caribbean (DFAs). It is therefore urgent to set up tools to collect clinical and paraclinical data for the evaluation of potential ...

    • Zika Virus Infection, Cambodia, 2010 

      Heang, V; Yasuda, C; Sovann, L; et al. (2014)
      Zika virus (ZIKV), a member of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, was first isolated from the blood of a sentinel rhesus monkey from the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1948 (1). Since that time, serologic studies and ...

    • Zika virus infection, Philippines, 2012 

      Alera, Maria Theresa; Hermann, Laura; Tac-An, Ilya A.; et al. (2016)
      Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquitoborne flavivirus, was first isolated from a rhesus monkey in Uganda in 1947 (1). This positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus (family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus) has a 10,794-nt genome ...

    • Zika virus infection: global update on epidemiology and potentially associated clinical manifestations 

      Garcia, E; Yactayo, S; Nishino, K; et al. (2016-06)
      The years 2015–2016 have marked an important change in the epidemiology of Zika virus (ZIKV). For the first time, autochthonous transmission has been reported from continental America and the Caribbean. This has raised ...

    • Zika virus infections imported to Italy: clinical, immunological and virological findings, and public health implications 

      Zammarchi, Lorenzo; Stella, Giulia; Mantella, Antonia; et al. (2016)
      We report the first two cases of laboratory confirmed Zika virus (ZIKV) infections imported into Italy from French Polynesia. Both patients presented with low grade fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, myalgia, arthralgia, ankle ...

    • Zika virus infections in Nigeria: virological and seroepidemiological investigations in Oyo State 

      Fagbami, A. H. (2014)
      A study of Zika virus infections was carried out in four communities in Oyo State, Nigeria. Virus isolation studies between 1971 and 1975 yielded two virus isolations from human cases of mild febrile illness. Haemaggluti ...

    • Zika virus infections in three travellers returning from South America and the Caribbean respectively, to Montpellier, France, December 2015 to January 2016 

      Thibault Maria, Alexandre; Maquart, Marianne; Makinson, Alain; et al. (2016-06)
      Since early 2015 there has been a rapid spread of Zika virus infections in South America with a subsequent threat for importation of that emerging disease in other regions of the world. Here we describe three cases in ...

    • Zika Virus Infects Human Cortical Neural Progenitors and Attenuates Their Growth 

      Tang, Hengli; Hammack, Christy; Ogden, Sarah C; et al. (2016-06)
      The suspected link between infection by Zika virus (ZIKV), a re-emerging flavivirus, and microcephaly is an urgent global health concern. The direct target cells of ZIKV in the developing human fetus are not clear. Here ...

    • Zika Virus Infects Human Placental Macrophages 

      Quicke, Kendra M. et al. (2016-07)
      The recent Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in Brazil has been directly linked to increased cases of microcephaly in newborns. Current evidence indicates that ZIKV is transmitted vertically from mother to fetus. However, the ...