Yellow fever

With the infestation by Aedes aegypti, urban yellow fever might already exist. This did not occur because of either the lacking of a sufficient contact between the diseased individual and the A. aegypti or perhaps because this, after sixty years without transmitting the virus, needs an adaptation ph...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Main Author: Aluízio Prata
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2000
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762000000700031
https://doaj.org/article/8b5ceabcf5d244de8b6c351eaccef52c
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Summary:With the infestation by Aedes aegypti, urban yellow fever might already exist. This did not occur because of either the lacking of a sufficient contact between the diseased individual and the A. aegypti or perhaps because this, after sixty years without transmitting the virus, needs an adaptation phase to infecting again.