[HTML][HTML] Temperature and transmission of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika viruses: A systematic review of experimental studies on Aedes aegypti and Aedes …

M Delrieu, JP Martinet, O O'connor, E Viennet… - Current Research in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mosquito-borne viruses are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in many parts of the
world. In recent years, modelling studies have shown that climate change strongly …

Astrocytes in flavivirus infections

M Potokar, J Jorgačevski, R Zorec - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Virus infections of the central nervous system (CNS) can manifest in various forms of
inflammation, including that of the brain (encephalitis) and spinal cord (myelitis), all of which …

Are pandemics gender neutral? Women's health and COVID-19

H Simba, S Ngcobo - Frontiers in global women's health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged as a health crisis in
Wuhan, China, and was later declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a Public …

Don't shut the stable door after the phage has bolted—The importance of bacteriophage inactivation in food environments

J Sommer, C Trautner, AK Witte, S Fister, D Schoder… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent years, a new potential measure against foodborne pathogenic bacteria was
rediscovered—bacteriophages. However, despite all their advantages, in connection to their …

Brain diseases in changing climate

JA Ruszkiewicz, AA Tinkov, AV Skalny, V Siokas… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate change is one of the biggest and most urgent challenges for the 21st century. Rising
average temperatures and ocean levels, altered precipitation patterns and increased …

An update on sexual transmission of Zika virus

H Sakkas, P Bozidis, X Giannakopoulos, N Sofikitis… - Pathogens, 2018 - mdpi.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the arthropod-borne
flaviviruses (arboviruses) which are mainly transmitted by blood-sucking mosquitoes of the …

Advances in Zika virus–host cell interaction: Current knowledge and future perspectives

JK Lee, OS Shin - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Emerging mosquito-transmitted RNA viruses, such as Zika virus (ZIKV) and Chikungunya
represent human pathogens of an immense global health problem. In particular, ZIKV has …

Zika virus production is resistant to RNase L antiviral activity

JN Whelan, Y Li, RH Silverman, SR Weiss - Journal of virology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is currently no knowledge of how the emerging human pathogen Zika virus (ZIKV)
interacts with the antiviral endoribonuclease L (RNase L) pathway during infection. Since …

Scientific and technological contributions of Latin America and Caribbean countries to the Zika virus outbreak

A Machado-Silva, C Guindalini, FL Fonseca… - BMC Public Health, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background The recent Zika virus (ZIKAV) epidemics disclosed a major public
health threat and a scientific and technological (S&T) challenge. The lessons learned from …

ZIKV can infect human term placentas in the absence of maternal factors

DL Villazana-Kretzer, KMG Wuertz… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Zika virus infection can result in devastating pregnancy outcomes when it crosses the
placental barrier. For human pregnancies, the mechanisms of vertical transmission remain …