Browsing Resources in English by Subject "Zika Virus Infection"
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The 3.8 Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika virus
(2016-06)The recent rapid spread of Zika virus and its unexpected linkage to birth defects and an autoimmune neurological syndrome have generated worldwide concern. Zika virus is a flavivirus like the dengue, yellow fever, and West ... -
Acute myelitis due to Zika virus infection
(2016-06)In January, 2016, a 15-year-old girl with a history only of an ovarian cyst was admitted to hospital in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, with left hemiparesis. 7 days previously she had presented to the emergency department ... -
Acute Zika infection with concurrent onset of Guillain-Barré Syndrome
(2016-07)A 47-year-old Tongan male returning to New Zealand after a 2-week holiday in Tonga presented with 3 days of progressive limb weakness, numbness, unsteady gait, and dyspnea. Two days before departing Tonga (6 days before ... -
Acute Zika Virus Infection after Travel to Malaysian Borneo, September 2014
(2016)Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, causes Zika fever, a self-limiting febrile and exanthematic arthralgia syndrome closely resembling dengue fever. Most often, signs and symptoms are maculopapular rash, fever, ... -
Arthropod-borne viral infections of man in Nigeria, 1964–1970
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Association between Zika virus and microcephaly in French Polynesia, 2013-15: A retrospective study
(2016-06)The emergence of Zika virus in the Americas has coincided with increased reports of babies born with microcephaly. On Feb 1, 2016, WHO declared the suspected link between Zika virus and microcephaly to be a Public Health ... -
Association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil, January to May, 2016: preliminary report of a case-control study
(2016-06)BACKGROUND: The microcephaly epidemic, which started in Brazil in 2015, was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO in 2016. We report the preliminary results of a case-control study investigating ... -
An autochthonous case of Zika due to possible sexual transmission, Florence, Italy, 2014
(2016)At the beginning of May 2014, an Italian man is his early 30s (patient 1) returned to Florence, Italy, after a 10-day holiday in Thailand. On the day after his arrival, he developed a confluent maculopapular rash, on the ... -
Biology of Zika Virus Infection in Human Skin Cells
(2016)Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging arbovirus of the Flaviviridae family, which includes dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and Japanese encephalitis viruses, that causes a mosquito-borne disease transmitted by the Aedes genus, ... -
Characterization of a Novel Murine Model to Study Zika Virus
(2016-06)The mosquito-borne Zika virus (ZIKV) is responsible for an explosive ongoing outbreak of febrile illness across the Americas. ZIKV was previously thought to cause only a mild, flu-like illness, but during the current ... -
Characterization of Lethal Zika Virus Infection in AG129 Mice
(2016-06)BACKGROUND: Mosquito-borne Zika virus (ZIKV) typically causes a mild and self-limiting illness known as Zika fever, which often is accompanied by maculopapular rash, headache, and myalgia. During the current outbreak in ... -
Characterizing the Zika virus genome - A bioinformatics study
(2016-06)The recent epidemic of Zika virus infections in South and Latin America have raised serious concern on its ramifications for the population in the Americas and spread of the virus worldwide. The Zika virus disease is a ... -
Clinical and laboratory profile of Zika virus infection in dengue suspected patients: A case series
(2016-06)Background The Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging arthropod-borne virus related to the dengue virus (DENV), and shows a similar clinical profile as other arboviral diseases, such as dengue and chikungunya virus (CHIKV). ... -
Clinical Characterisation of Zika Virus Infection in the Context of Co-circulating Arboviruses in Latin America - the WHO-IDAMS-ISARIC Protocol
(2016)Knowledge of the clinical manifestations and natural history of disease in patients infected with Zika and co-circulating arboviruses (including Chikungunya and Dengue) in Latin America remains incomplete. Currently, ... -
Clinical Manifestations of Zika Virus Infection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015
(2016-07)Zika virus infection, which has been associated with microcephaly and other neurologic disorders, has reached the level of public health emergency of international concern (1). Zika virus (family Flaviviridae, genus ... -
Co-infection with Zika and dengue viruses in 2 patients, New Caledonia, 2014
(2016)Dengue is the most prevalent arthropod-borne viral disease in tropical and subtropical countries. Every year, dengue virus (DENV) infections cause more than 50 million cases, 500,000 hospitalizations, and 12,500 deaths ... -
Comparative genomic analysis of pre-epidemic and epidemic Zika virus strains for virological factors potentially associated with the rapidly expanding epidemic
(2016-06)Less than 20 sporadic cases of human Zika virus (ZIKV) infection were reported in Africa and Asia before 2007, but large outbreaks involving up to 73% of the populations on the Pacific islands have started since 2007, and ... -
Complete Genome Sequence of Zika Virus from the First Imported Case in Mainland China
(2016-06)The first case of Zika virus infection was identified in a Chinese traveler returning from Venezuela in February 2016. This report describes the complete genome sequence of Zika virus from the first imported case in China. ... -
Congenital cerebral malformations and dysfunction in fetuses and newborns following the 2013 to 2014 Zika virus epidemic in French Polynesia
(2016-06)A Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in French Polynesia from October 2013 to March 2014 resulted in 8,750 suspected cases reported through the general practitioners-based (25 to 45 sentinel practitioners) sentinel surveillance ... -
Congenital neural tube defects evaluation in newborns with prenatal Zika virus infection
(2016-06)Introduction: Neural Tube Defects (NTD) occurrence depends of genetic or environmental causes, as ilicit or medical drug use, vitamin insuficiency or gestational infections. Acquired microcephaly is presumed to result from ...