Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings

R. Faria, Nuno; do Socorro da Silva Azevedo, Raimunda; U. G. Kraemer, Moritz; Pereira de Souza, Renato; Sequetin Cunha, Mariana; C. Hill, Sarah; Thézé, Julien; B. Bonsall, Michael; A. Bowden, Thomas; Rissanen, Ilona; Maria Rocco, Iray; Silva Nogueira, Juliana; Yurika Maeda, Adriana; Giseli da Silva Vasami, Fernanda; Luiz de Lima Macedo, Fernando; Suzuki, Akemi; Guerreiro Rodrigues, Sueli; Cecília Ribeiro Cruz, Ana; Tardeli Nunes, Bruno; Barbosa de Almeida Medeiros, Daniele; Sueli Guerreiro Rodrigues, Daniela; Louize Nunes Queiroz, Alice; Vieira Pinto da Silva, Eliana; Freitas Henriques, Daniele; Salbe Travassos da Rosa, Elisabeth; Silva de Oliveira, Consuelo; Carício Martins, Lívia; Baldez Vasconcelos, Helena; Medeiros Neves Casseb, Lívia; de Brito Simith, Darlene; P. Messina, Jane; Abade, Leandro; Lourenço, José; Carlos Junior Alcantara, Luiz; Maia de Lima, Maricélia; Giovanetti, Marta; I Hay, Simon; Santos de Oliveira, Rodrigo; da Silva Lemos, Poliana; Freitas de Oliveira, Layanna; Pereira Silva de Lima, Clayton; Patroca da Silva, Sandro; Mota de Vasconcelos, Janaína; Franco, Luciano; Ferreira Cardoso, Jedson; Lídio da Silva Gonçalves Vianez Júnior, João; Mir, Daiana; Bello, Gonzalo; Delatorre, Edson; Khan, Kamran; Creatore, Marisa; Evelim Coelho, Giovanini; Kleber de Oliveira, Wanderson; B. Tesh, Robert; G. Pybus, Oliver; Roberto Teixeira Nunes, Márcio; Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos, Pedro

doi:10.1126/science.aaf5036

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Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings

Published in Science • Mar 25, 2016

Authors:

Nuno R. Faria

Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo

Moritz U. G. Kraemer

Abstract

Brazil has experienced an unprecedented epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV), with ~30,000 cases reported to date. ZIKV was first detected in Brazil in May 2015, and cases of microcephaly potentially associated with ZIKV infection were identified in November 2015. We performed next-generation sequencing to...

Subject

Zika virus

Microcephaly

Outbreak

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