Persistence of Yellow fever virus outside the Amazon Basin, causing epidemics in Southeast Brazil, from 2016 to 2018.

• Main Authors: Izabela Maurício de Rezende (Author), Lívia Sacchetto (Author), Érica Munhoz de Mello (Author), Pedro Augusto Alves (Author), Felipe Campos de Melo Iani (Author), Talita Émile Ribeiro Adelino (Author), Myrian Morato Duarte (Author), Ana Luísa Furtado Cury (Author), André Felipe Leal Bernardes (Author), Tayrine Araújo Santos (Author), Leonardo Soares Pereira (Author), Maria Rita Teixeira Dutra (Author), Dario Brock Ramalho (Author), Benoit de Thoisy (Author), Erna Geessien Kroon (Author), Giliane de Souza Trindade (Author), Betânia Paiva Drumond (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Yellow fever (YF) is endemic in the Brazilian Amazon Basin, and sporadic outbreaks take place outside the endemic area in Brazil. Since 2016, YF epidemics have been occurring in Southeast Brazil, with more than 1,900 human cases and more than 1,600 epizooties of non-human primates (NHPs) reported un...