Zika Virus Outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Clinical Characterization, Epidemiological and Virological Aspects.

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Zika Virus Outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Clinical Characterization, Epidemiological and Virological Aspects.

PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Apr 2016

Brasil Patrícia, Calvet Guilherme Amaral, Siqueira André Machado, Wakimoto Mayumi, de Sequeira Patrícia Carvalho, Nobre Aline, Quintana Marcel de Souza Borges, Mendonça Marco Cesar Lima de, Lupi Otilia, de Souza Rogerio Valls, Romero Carolina, Zogbi Heruza, Bressan Clarisse da Silveira, Alves Simone Sampaio, Lourenço-de-Oliveira Ricardo, Nogueira Rita Maria Ribeiro, Carvalho Marilia Sá, de Filippis Ana Maria Bispo, Jaenisch Thomas

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BACKGROUND: In 2015, Brazil was faced with the cocirculation of three arboviruses of major public health importance. The emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) presents new challenges to both clinicians and public health authorities. Overlapping clinical features between diseases caused by ZIKV, Dengue (DENV) and Chikungunya (CHIKV) and the lack of validated serological assays for ZIKV make accurate diagnosis difficult....

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