Infectious virus outbreaks pose a significant challenge to public healthcare systems. Early
and accurate virus diagnosis is critical to prevent the spread of the virus, especially when no …

Zika Virus and Its Associated Diseases Zika is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that can cause
congenital defects, including microcephaly. Although most Zika virus infections are …

Enveloped viruses encased within a lipid bilayer membrane are highly contagious and can
cause many infectious diseases like influenza and COVID-19, thus calling for effective …

Since the first antiviral drug, idoxuridine, was approved in 1963, 90 antiviral drugs
categorized into 13 functional groups have been formally approved for the treatment of the …

The epidemic history of Zika virus began in 2007, with its emergence in Yap Island in the
western Pacific, followed in 2013–14 by a larger epidemic in French Polynesia, south …

Background The signs and symptoms of Zika virus infection are usually mild and self-limited.
However, the disease has been linked to neurological complications such as Guillain-Barré …

The recent global (re) emergence of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses), such as
chikungunya and Zika virus, was widely reported in the media as though it was a new …

Zika virus (ZIKV) has evolved into a global health threat because of its unexpected causal
link to microcephaly. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that contemporary epidemic strains have …

The recent emergence and re-emergence of viral infections transmitted by vectors—Zika,
chikungunya, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile, yellow fever and others—is a …

For decades, arboviral diseases were considered to be only minor contributors to global
mortality and disability. As a result, low priority was given to arbovirus research investment …