Rapid decline of Zika virus NS1 antigen-specific antibody responses, northeastern Brazil

A Moreira-Soto, G de Souza Sampaio, C Pedroso… - Virus Genes, 2020 - Springer
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a positive-stranded RNA virus within the Flaviviridae family. After
decades of circulation in Asia, ZIKV was introduced to Brazil in 2014–2015, associated with …

Zika virus antibody titers three years after confirmed infection

T Langerak, LMR Kasbergen, F Chandler, T Brinkman… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: In 2015–2016, a large Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak occurred in the Americas.
Although the exact ZIKV antibody kinetics after infection are unknown, recent evidence …

Perspectives on the Zika outbreak: herd immunity, antibody-dependent enhancement and vaccine

JVJ Silva, TRR Lopes, EF Oliveira-Filho… - Revista do Instituto de …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a member of the family Flaviviridae, which comprises mosquito-borne
viruses that pose major public health threats, such as Dengue (DENV) and Yellow Fever …

[HTML][HTML] Two-year Decay of Zika Virus Neutralizing Antibodies in People Living in an Endemic Region in Brazil

T Magalhaes, CNL Morais, EAN Azevedo… - The American Journal …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is currently not clear whether humoral immunity to Zika virus (ZIKV) elicited upon natural
ZIKV infection is long-lasting. In addition, cross-reactivity of anti-ZIKV antibodies with …

Zika virus seroprevalence declines and neutralization antibodies wane in adults following outbreaks in French Polynesia and Fiji

AD Henderson, M Aubry, M Kama, J Vanhomwegen… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Background Serosurveys published following major outbreaks of Zika virus (ZIKV) have so
far shown a high level of seroprevalence from samples collected within 12 months of the first …

High Zika virus seroprevalence in Salvador, northeastern Brazil limits the potential for further outbreaks

EM Netto, A Moreira-Soto, C Pedroso, C Höser, S Funk… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
During 2015 to 2016, Brazil reported more Zika virus (ZIKV) cases than any other country,
yet population exposure remains unknown. Serological studies of ZIKV are hampered by …

Zika virus seroprevalence in blood donors from the Northeastern region of São Paulo State, Brazil, between 2015 and 2017

SN Slavov, RRG Machado, AR Ferreira, CP Soares… - Journal of Infection, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Although primarily transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitos, Zika virus (ZIKV) can
also be transmitted by blood transfusion, due to the fact that some of the infected donors can …

ZIKV-specific NS1 epitopes as serological markers of acute Zika virus infection

YW Kam, JA Leite, SN Amrun, FM Lum… - The journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Zika virus (ZIKV) infections have reemerged as a global health issue due to
serious clinical complications. Development of specific serological assays to detect and …

Clinical, virologic, and immunologic characteristics of Zika virus infection in a cohort of US patients: prolonged RNA detection in whole blood

HM El Sahly, R Gorchakov, L Lai… - Open forum …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Clinical, virologic, and immunologic characteristics of Zika virus (ZIKV)
infections in US patients are poorly defined. Methods US subjects with suspected ZIKV …

Seroprevalence, risk factor, and spatial analyses of Zika virus infection after the 2016 epidemic in Managua, Nicaragua

JV Zambrana, F Bustos Carrillo… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
In 2015, a Zika epidemic in Brazil began spreading throughout the Americas. Zika virus
(ZIKV) entered Managua, Nicaragua, in January 2016 and caused an epidemic that peaked …