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Establishment and cryptic transmission of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas.
Nature - 15 Jun 2017
Faria N R, Quick J, Claro I M, Thézé J, de Jesus J G, Giovanetti M, Kraemer M U G, Hill S C, Black A, da Costa A C, Franco L C, Silva S P, Wu C-H, Raghwani J, Cauchemez S, du Plessis L, Verotti M P, de Oliveira W K, Carmo E H, Coelho G E, Santelli A C F S, Vinhal L C, Henriques C M, Simpson J T, Loose M, Andersen K G, Grubaugh N D, Somasekar S, Chiu C Y, Muñoz-Medina J E, Gonzalez-Bonilla C R, Arias C F, Lewis-Ximenez L L, Baylis S A, Chieppe A O, Aguiar S F, Fernandes C A, Lemos P S, Nascimento B L S, Monteiro H A O, Siqueira I C, de Queiroz M G, de Souza T R, Bezerra J F, Lemos M R, Pereira G F, Loudal D, Moura L C, Dhalia R, França R F, Magalhães T, Marques E T, Jaenisch T, Wallau G L, de Lima M C, Nascimento V, de Cerqueira E M, de Lima M M, Mascarenhas D L, Neto J P Moura, Levin A S, Tozetto-Mendoza T R, Fonseca S N, Mendes-Correa M C, Milagres F P, Segurado A, Holmes E C, Rambaut A, Bedford T, Nunes M R T, Sabino E C, Alcantara L C J, Loman N J, Pybus O G
Abstract excerpt
Transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas was first confirmed in May 2015 in northeast Brazil. Brazil has had the highest number of reported ZIKV cases worldwide (more than 200,000 by 24 December 2016) and the most cases associated with microcephaly and other birth defects (2,366 confirmed by 31 December 2016). Since the initial detection of ZIKV in Brazil, more than 45 countries in the Americas have...
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