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Epidemic establishment and cryptic transmission of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas

2017-02-02

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Zika virus (ZIKV) transmission in the Americas was first confirmed in May 2015 in Northeast Brazil 1 . Brazil has the highest number of reported ZIKV cases worldwide (>200,000 by 24 Dec 2016 2 ) as well as the greatest number of cases associated with microcephaly and other birth defects (2,366 confirmed cases by 31 Dec 2016 2 ). Following the initial detection of ZIKV in Brazil, 47 countries and territories in...

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Literature Corpus work: cbd69e7c-918d-5887-a6a1-96bb74aa5b75
DOI: 10.1101/105171

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