Zika Virus Outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Clinical Characterization, Epidemiological and Virological Aspects.

• Main Authors: Patrícia Brasil (Author), Guilherme Amaral Calvet (Author), André Machado Siqueira (Author), Mayumi Wakimoto (Author), Patrícia Carvalho de Sequeira (Author), Aline Nobre (Author), Marcel de Souza Borges Quintana (Author), Marco Cesar Lima de Mendonça (Author), Otilia Lupi (Author), Rogerio Valls de Souza (Author), Carolina Romero (Author), Heruza Zogbi (Author), Clarisse da Silveira Bressan (Author), Simone Sampaio Alves (Author), Ricardo Lourenço- (Author), Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira (Author), Marilia Sá Carvalho (Author), Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis (Author), Thomas Jaenisch (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:In 2015, Brazil was faced with the cocirculation of three arboviruses of major public health importance. The emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) presents new challenges to both clinicians and public health authorities. Overlapping clinical features between diseases caused by ZIKV, Dengue (DENV...