Clinical aspects of the oral cavity of patients with congenital Zika syndrome: literature review / Aspectos clínicos da cavidade oral de pacientes com a síndrome congênita do zika: revisão da literatura

• Main Authors: João Victor Macedo Marinho (Author), Kristiana Cerqueira Mousinho (Author), Camila Maria Beder Ribeiro Girish Panjwani (Author), Sonia Maria Soares Ferreira (Author), Aleska Dias Vanderlei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Alagoas, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The Zika virus belongs to the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus and was discovered in 1947 in the rhésus monkeys in the Zika forest in Uganda in Africa. In the 1970s the virus spread and reached Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Malaysia. Its main vector in Brazil is the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Be...