A recent study showed that infectivity of Zika virus (ZIKV) Asian genotype was enhanced by an alanine-to-valine amino acid substitution at residue 188 of the NS1 protein, but the precise time and location of origin of this mutation were not formally estimated. Here, we applied a Bayesian coalescent-based...
Resumo: A infecção por zika teve grande impacto não somente nas grávidas e nos recém-nascidos, mas também na saúde pública, nas ideias populares sobre o Aedes aegypti e no respeito dos direitos sociais das mulheres. O objetivo deste texto é identificar esse impacto e as mudanças históricas, so...
A dengue e o Zika vírus são doenças virais infecciosas de transmissão vetorial. O objetivo deste trabalho foi descrever as ocorrências da dengue e do Zika vírus na 13ª Regional de Saúde do Paraná, com sede no município de Cianorte, e em mais dez outros municípios. Os dados foram obtidos no Sis...
Abstract A Zika virus seroepidemiology study was performed in 1084 blood donors collected from August to October 2015 in six sites of Cameroon representing a large panel of eco-environments. Samples were tested using an anti-NS1 IgG ELISA detection kit and positives were further confirmed by seroneutrali...
Zika virus (ZIKV) is widely distributed in Brazil and the Northeast Region (NE) is the most affected zone, showing the highest incidence of microcephaly associated with ZIKV congenital infections worldwide. We report attempts to infect three populations of Culex quinquefasciatus from severely affected si...
El dengue es una enfermedad prevalente con antigüedad en Honduras, la cual dejó de ser la arbovirosis exclusiva del país con la aparición del chikungunya y del zika, debido al limitado control logrado frente al vector. Se considera asimismo la posibilidad de la introducción de nuevas enfermedades co...
On the purpose of the article "To reduce the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, strategy to prevent three viral diseases increasing their incidence"
