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Zika virus in Brazil and the danger of infestation by Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquitoes

Abstract Zika virus, already widely distributed in Africa and Asia, was recently reported in two Northeastern Brazilian: State of Bahia and State of Rio Grande do Norte, and one Southeastern: State of São Paulo. This finding adds a potentially noxious virus to a list of several other viruses that are wi...

Abordaje del Zika del personal de salud, que labora en la Unidad Comunitaria de Salud Familiar Especializada Barrios, Mayo-Octubre 2016

Propósito: Mejorar o reorientar las acciones realizadas para el control del Zika, además de fortalecer a los recursos humanos de la Unidad Barrios. Material y Método: Estudio tipo descriptivo de corte transversal con enfoque cualicuantitativo, se entrevistó a 34 actores claves de la UCSF E Barrios. ...

Belize zika classification by epidemiological week 2016

This report represents a compilation of 2016 statistics based on 52 weeks of epidemiologic surveillance of the Zika virus disease by the EPI Unit, Ministry of Health, Belize. Four tables with corresponding graphs provide a breakdown of the confirmed, suspected (clinical), and suspected (by test)) cases o...

A geografia social do zika no Brasil
The social geography of zika in Brazil

Estud. av; 30 (88), 2016
A crise do vírus do zika, como todas as doenças, é um indicador da desigualdade que persiste no Brasil mesmo após décadas de democracia. O zika ilustra disparidade não apenas em termos de classe e com a variedade de questões que se conectam com classe, como gênero e raça. Questões éticas relac...

Overview of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in regards to the Brazilian epidemic

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 49 (5), 2016
Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, belongs to the Flaviviridae family, genus Flavivirus. ZIKV was initially isolated in 1947 from a sentinel monkey in the Zika forest, Uganda. Little clinical importance was attributed to ZIKV, once only few symptomatic cases were reported in some African and...