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Role of mutational reversions and fitness restoration in Zika virus spread to the Americas.
Nature communications - 26 Jan 2021
Liu Jianying, Liu Yang, Shan Chao, Nunes Bruno T D, Yun Ruimei, Haller Sherry L, Rafael Grace H, Azar Sasha R, Andersen Clark R, Plante Kenneth, Vasilakis Nikos, Shi Pei-Yong, Weaver Scott C
Abstract excerpt
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 including microcephaly following congenital infections. Phylogenetic studies have shown that ZIKV evolved in Africa and later spread to Asia, and that the Asian lineage is responsible for the recent epidemics in the South Pacific and...
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