The Global Expansion of Dengue: How Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Enabled the First Pandemic Arbovirus

OJ Brady, SI Hay - Annual review of entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Dengue is an emerging viral disease principally transmitted by the Aedes (Stegomyia)
aegypti mosquito. It is one of the fastest-growing global infectious diseases, with 100–400 …

Zika virus

D Musso, DJ Gubler - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) in the genus Flavivirus and the
family Flaviviridae. ZIKV was first isolated from a nonhuman primate in 1947 and from …

Zika virus

LR Petersen, DJ Jamieson, AM Powers… - New England Journal …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
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The Zika virus epidemic in Brazil: from discovery to future implications

R Lowe, C Barcellos, P Brasil, OG Cruz… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The first confirmed case of Zika virus infection in the Americas was reported in Northeast
Brazil in May 2015, although phylogenetic studies indicate virus introduction as early as …

Zika virus: History, emergence, biology, and prospects for control

SC Weaver, F Costa, MA Garcia-Blanco, AI Ko… - Antiviral research, 2016 - Elsevier
Zika virus (ZIKV), a previously obscure flavivirus closely related to dengue, West Nile,
Japanese encephalitis and yellow fever viruses, has emerged explosively since 2007 to …

[HTML][HTML] A literature review of Zika virus

AR Plourde, EM Bloch - Emerging infectious diseases, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Zika virus is a mosquitoborne flavivirus that is the focus of an ongoing pandemic and public
health emergency. Previously limited to sporadic cases in Africa and Asia, the emergence of …

Differential Susceptibilities of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus from the Americas to Zika Virus

T Chouin-Carneiro, A Vega-Rua… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Since the major outbreak in 2007 in the Yap Island, Zika virus (ZIKV) causing
dengue-like syndromes has affected multiple islands of the South Pacific region. In May …

Zika virus: history of a newly emerging arbovirus

N Wikan, DR Smith - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016 - thelancet.com
Zika virus was originally identified in a sentinel rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest of Uganda
in 1947. The virus is a member of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, and is transmitted …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus: History, epidemiology, transmission, and clinical presentation

BH Song, SI Yun, M Woolley, YM Lee - Journal of neuroimmunology, 2017 - Elsevier
Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne positive-stranded RNA virus of the family Flaviviridae
(genus Flavivirus), is now causing an unprecedented large-scale outbreak in the Americas …

Zika virus: new clinical syndromes and its emergence in the western hemisphere

HM Lazear, MS Diamond - Journal of virology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV) had remained a relatively obscure flavivirus until a recent series of
outbreaks accompanied by unexpectedly severe clinical complications brought this virus …