Why Zika virus infection has become a public health concern?

HL Chen, RB Tang - Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Prior to 2015, Zika Virus (ZIKV) outbreaks had occurred in areas of Africa,
Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Although a causal relationship between Zika …

Zika virus outbreak in Brazil

J Heukelbach, CH Alencar, AA Kelvin… - The Journal of Infection …, 2016 - jidc.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection is spreading rapidly within the Americas after originating from an
outbreak in Brazil. We describe the current ZIKV infection epidemic in Brazil and the …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus: a new global threat for 2016

R Cadu, T Harish - health, 2015 - thelancet.com
Concerns about the threat posed to global health security by Zika virus are escalating, with
new outbreaks reported in Central and South America. Locally transmitted (autochthonous) …

Zika virus: global health challenge, threat and current situation

H Aziz, A Zia, A Anwer, M Aziz, S Fatima… - Journal of Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ZIKV has emerged as grave global health issue in the past few years. ZIKV was firstly
isolated in 1947 from a rhesus sentinel monkey in the Zika forest in Uganda. It is usually …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus infection and its emerging trends in Southeast Asia

AR Salehuddin, H Haslan, N Mamikutty… - Asian Pacific journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that represents a public health emergency at the
ongoing epidemic. Previously, this rare virus was limited to sporadic cases in Africa and Asia …

A review on Zika virus outbreak, epidemiology, transmission and infection dynamics

SS Kazmi, W Ali, N Bibi, F Nouroz - Journal of Biological Research …, 2020 - Springer
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a newly emergent relative of the Flaviviridae family and linked to dengue
(DENV) and Chikungunya (CHIVKV). ZIKV is one of the rising pathogens promptly …

Emergence of Zika virus infection in China

C Zhou, J Liu, R Qi, L Fang, X Qin, H Han… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Currently, Zika virus (ZIKV) is spreading across the world and no ZIKV infection cases have
ever been reported in China. Here, we aimed to determine whether ZIKV infection exists in …

History, epidemiology, and clinical manifestations of Zika: a systematic review

ES Paixão, F Barreto… - … journal of public …, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To describe salient epidemiological characteristics of Zika virus outbreaks
across the world and to examine the clinical presentations, complications, and atypical …

[HTML][HTML] Global alert: Zika virus-an emerging arbovirus

Z Ozkurt, EC Tanriverdi - The Eurasian journal of medicine, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus of the Flavivirus genus, and it has an envelope and a single
RNA molecule. In early 2016, the World Health Organization declared ZIKV infection to be …

The global threat of Zika virus to pregnancy: epidemiology, clinical perspectives, mechanisms, and impact

P Boeuf, HE Drummer, JS Richards, MJL Scoullar… - BMC medicine, 2016 - Springer
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that has newly emerged as a significant
global threat, especially to pregnancy. Recent major outbreaks in the Pacific and in Central …