A review on Zika virus outbreak, epidemiology, transmission and infection dynamics

SS Kazmi, W Ali, N Bibi, F Nouroz - Journal of Biological Research …, 2020 - Springer
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a newly emergent relative of the Flaviviridae family and linked to dengue
(DENV) and Chikungunya (CHIVKV). ZIKV is one of the rising pathogens promptly …

Zika virus

S Masmejan, D Musso, M Vouga, L Pomar… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
Zika virus (ZIKV), a neurotropic single-stranded RNA flavivirus, remains an important cause
of congenital infection, fetal microcephaly, and Guillain-Barré syndrome in populations …

Recent African strains of Zika virus display higher transmissibility and fetal pathogenicity than Asian strains

F Aubry, S Jacobs, M Darmuzey, S Lequime… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The global emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) revealed the unprecedented ability for a mosquito-
borne virus to cause congenital birth defects. A puzzling aspect of ZIKV emergence is that all …

Enhanced Zika virus susceptibility of globally invasive Aedes aegypti populations

F Aubry, S Dabo, C Manet, I Filipović, NH Rose… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The drivers and patterns of zoonotic virus emergence in the human population are poorly
understood. The mosquito Aedes aegypti is a major arbovirus vector native to Africa that …

Phylogenetic interpretation during outbreaks requires caution

CJ Villabona-Arenas, WP Hanage, DC Tully - Nature microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
How viruses are related, and how they have evolved and spread over time, can be
investigated using phylogenetics. Here, we set out how genomic analyses should be used …

Phylogenetic analysis of migration, differentiation, and class switching in B cells

KB Hoehn, OG Pybus, SH Kleinstein - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
B cells undergo rapid mutation and selection for antibody binding affinity when producing
antibodies capable of neutralizing pathogens. This evolutionary process can be intermixed …

Epidemiology and laboratory diagnostics of dengue, yellow fever, zika, and chikungunya virus infections in Africa

A Adam, C Jassoy - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Arbovirus infections are widespread, and their disease burden has increased in the past
decade. In Africa, arbovirus infections and fever with unknown etiology are common. Due to …

Zika virus RNA persistence in sewage

A Muirhead, K Zhu, J Brown, M Basu… - … science & technology …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite substantial advances in knowledge and understanding about the Zika virus (ZIKV),
limitations in surveillance for this mainly asymptomatic infection constrain attempts to …

Role of mutational reversions and fitness restoration in Zika virus spread to the Americas

J Liu, Y Liu, C Shan, BTD Nunes, R Yun… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged from obscurity in 2013 to spread from Asia to the South Pacific
and the Americas, where millions of people were infected, accompanied by severe disease …

[HTML][HTML] Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika in eight districts in Tanzania

GO Mwanyika, C Sindato, S Rugarabamu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background: This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors of
chikungunya (CHIKV), dengue (DENV), and Zika (ZIKV) viruses in Tanzania. Methods: The …