Animals in the Zika Virus Life Cycle: What to Expect from Megadiverse Latin American Countries.

• Главные авторы: Marina Galvão Bueno (Автор), Nádia Martinez (Автор), Lívia Abdalla (Автор), Claudia Nunes Duarte Dos Santos (Автор), Marcia Chame (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Zika virus (ZIKV) was first isolated in 1947 in primates in Uganda, West Africa. The virus remained confined to the equatorial regions of Africa and Asia, cycling between infecting monkeys, arboreal mosquitoes, and occasionally humans. The ZIKV Asiatic strain was probably introduced into Brazil in o...