Article
Molecular evolution of Zika virus during its emergence in the 20th century
2014-04-01
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Background: Zika virus (ZIKV) is mosquito-borne flavivirus first isolated in Uganda in 1947and repeatedly isolated by entomological and virological surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Until 2000, only few human cases were reported but in 2007, the first major human outbreak was notified in Yap Island, Micronesia leading to 99 cases. More recently in October 2013, more than 400 of ZIKV infection...
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- Literature Corpus work
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- 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.03.411
