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Uncovering the fitness of endemically circulating Zika virus strains

2026-06-24

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Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus that usually causes few symptoms and has circulated endemically in Asia for decades. However, a large outbreak in South America in 2015 uncovered the serious risk of congenital Zika syndrome in infants born from ZIKV infected mothers. It is unknown whether a lineage with distinct pre-existing fitness advantage emerged from Asia to cause the South American outbreak, and whether the...

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Literature Corpus work: 71f6e46a-dd52-5fec-b7d1-c09bcb143a4e
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.21.26356168

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