[HTML][HTML] Impact of weather seasonality and sexual transmission on the spread of Zika fever

A Dénes, MA Ibrahim, L Oluoch, M Tekeli, T Tekeli - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
We establish a compartmental model to study the transmission of Zika virus disease
including spread through sexual contacts and the role of asymptomatic carriers. To …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the spread of the Zika virus by sexual and mosquito transmission

S Agudelo, M Ventresca - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Zika Virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus that is transmitted predominantly by the Aedes species of
mosquito, but also through sexual contact, blood transfusions, and congenitally from mother …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention and control of Zika as a mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted disease: a mathematical modeling analysis

D Gao, Y Lou, D He, TC Porco, Y Kuang, G Chowell… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas poses a major global public health
emergency. While ZIKV is transmitted from human to human by bites of Aedes mosquitoes …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of multiple transmission pathways on Zika dynamics

O Olawoyin, C Kribs - Infectious Disease Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
Although the Zika virus is transmitted to humans primarily through the bite of infected female
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, it can also be sexually and vertically transmitted within both …

[HTML][HTML] A mathematical model for Zika virus transmission dynamics with a time-dependent mosquito biting rate

P Suparit, A Wiratsudakul, C Modchang - Theoretical Biology and Medical …, 2018 - Springer
Background Mathematical modeling has become a tool used to address many emerging
diseases. One of the most basic and popular modeling frameworks is the compartmental …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the survival of Zika virus in a vector interconnected sexual contact network

T Ferdousi, LW Cohnstaedt, DS McVey, CM Scoglio - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The recent outbreaks of the insect-vectored Zika virus have demonstrated its potential to be
sexually transmitted, which complicates modeling and our understanding of disease …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus dynamics: When does sexual transmission matter?

O Maxian, A Neufeld, EJ Talis, LM Childs… - Epidemics, 2017 - Elsevier
The Zika virus (ZIKV) has captured worldwide attention with the ongoing epidemic in South
America and its link to severe birth defects, most notably microcephaly. ZIKV is spread to …

[HTML][HTML] Asymptomatic transmission and the dynamics of Zika infection

SM Moghadas, A Shoukat, AL Espindola, RS Pereira… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Following the 2013–14 outbreak in French Polynesia, the Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic spread
widely to many countries where Aedes Aegypti as the main transmitting vector is endemic …

Effects of vertical transmission and human contact on zika dynamics

A Sow, C Diallo, H Cherifi - Complexity, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The main objective of Zika transmission studies is to work out the simplest approach to scale
back human mortality and morbidity caused by the disease. Therefore, it is essential to spot …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling Zika virus transmission dynamics: parameter estimates, disease characteristics, and prevention

M Rahman, K Bekele-Maxwell, LAL Cates, HT Banks… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Because of limited data, much remains uncertain about parameters related to transmission
dynamics of Zika virus (ZIKV). Estimating a large number of parameters from the limited …