One year after the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil: from hypotheses to evidence

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Carlos Alexandre Antunes de Brito, Marli Tenorio Cordeiro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
• Subjects: Zika; Microcephaly; Neurological cases; Epidemiology; Review; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Pacific; Barré
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0328-2016; https://doaj.org/article/81fb3bb791744603872e95e2e75d630d

Abstract Zika virusis an arbovirus of the Flaviviridae family with two major strains, an Asian and an African strain. The main vectors involved in the transmission of Zika virus are the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. Despite its identification, discovered in 1947 in the Zika forest i...