After a chikungunya outbreak in Salvador, Brazil, we performed a cross-sectional,
community-based study of 1,776 inhabitants to determine chikungunya virus (CHIKV) …

Determination of antibodies against ToRCH antigens at the beginning of pregnancy allows
assessment of both the maternal immune status and the risks to an adverse pregnancy …

Infections during pregnancy that may cause congenital abnormalities have been recognized
for decades, but their diagnosis is challenging. This was again illustrated with the …

Background Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, is a re-emerging virus that
constitutes a public health threat due to its recent global spread, recurrent outbreaks, and …

Among the emerging and reemerging arboviral diseases, Zika, dengue and chikungunya
deserve special attention due to their wide geographical distribution and clinical severity …

Next-generation sequencing technologies, exponential increases in the availability of virus
genomic data, and ongoing advances in phylogenomic methods have made genomic …

Since the 1980s, the prevalence of diseases caused by arboviruses, in particular, those
transmitted by Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes have increased in the Americas. The diseases …

Several hundred thousand Zika cases have been reported across the Americas since 2015.
Incidence of infection was likely much higher, however, due to a high frequency of …

Background: The Zika virus (ZIKV) caused a large outbreak in the Americas leading to the
declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in February 2016. A …

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne virus that belongs to the Flaviviridae family, together
with dengue, yellow fever, and West Nile viruses. In the wake of its emergence in the French …