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Spread of the pandemic Zika virus lineage is associated with NS1 codon usage adaptation in humans
2015-11-25
Abstract excerpt
Zika virus (ZIKV) infections were more common in the zoonotic cycle until the end of the 20th century with few human cases in Africa and Southeastern Asia. Recently, the Asian lineage of ZIKV is spreading along human-to-human chains of transmission in the Pacific Islands and in South America. To better understand its recent urban expansion, we compared genetic differences among the lineages. Herein we show that th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 40325389-e0f2-5647-ab73-2f284cf51e18
- DOI
- 10.1101/032839
