Zika
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Last Posted: Apr 08, 2021
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Chimeric Zika viruses containing structural protein genes of insect-specific flaviviruses cannot replicate in vertebrate cells due to entry and post-translational restrictions.
Tangudu Chandra S et al. Virology 2021 4 30-39 -
Epidemiology and evolution of Zika virus in Minas Gerais, Southeast Brazil.
Iani Felipe C M et al. Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases 2021 3 104785 -
Role of mutational reversions and fitness restoration in Zika virus spread to the Americas.
Liu Jianying et al. Nature communications 2021 1 (1) 595 -
Simultaneous circulation of Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya viruses and their vertical co-transmission among Aedes aegypti.
Teixeira Adriano Fernandes et al. Acta tropica 2021 Jan 105819 -
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 -
RNA vaccines: an introduction
PHG Foundation, November 2020 -
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)
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