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Last Posted: Dec 17, 2020

• Evolution and epidemiologic dynamics of dengue virus in Nicaragua during the emergence of chikungunya and Zika viruses.
  Edgerton Sean V et al. Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases 2020 Dec 104680
• Enhanced Zika virus susceptibility of globally invasive Aedes aegypti populations.
  Aubry Fabien et al. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020 Nov (6519) 991-996
• Florida releasing genetically modified mosquitoes to prevent diseases like Zika
  Lanese N. Live Science, Aug 21, 2020.
• A Zika virus envelope mutation preceding the 2015 epidemic enhances virulence and fitness for transmission.
  Shan Chao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020 Aug
• High-Quality Resolution of the Outbreak-Related Zika Virus Genome and Discovery of New Viruses Using Ion Torrent-Based Metatranscriptomics.
  I Sardi Silvia et al. Viruses 2020 Jul (7)
• Evolving viral and serological stages of Zika virus RNA-positive blood donors and estimation of incidence of infection during the 2016 Puerto Rican Zika epidemic: an observational cohort study.
  Williamson Phillip C et al. The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2020 Jul
• Point-of-Care Devices to Detect Zika and Other Emerging Viruses.
  de Puig Helena et al. Annual review of biomedical engineering 2020 Jun 371-386
• Genomic Epidemiology of 2015-2016 Zika Virus Outbreak in Cape Verde
  Faye O, et al. Emerg Infect Dis, June 2020.
• Zika Virus Amplification Using Strand Displacement Isothermal Method and Sequencing Using Nanopore Technology.
  Hansen Sören et al. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2020 123-136
• Using Next Generation Sequencing to Study the Genetic Diversity of Candidate Live Attenuated Zika Vaccines.
  Collins Natalie D et al. Vaccines 2020 Apr (2)