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| Title |
Overview of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in regards to the Brazilian epidemic
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| Published in |
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1590/1414-431x20165420 |
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| Authors |
S.N. Slavov, K.K. Otaguiri, S. Kashima, D.T. Covas |
| Abstract |
Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, belongs to the Flaviviridae family, genus Flavivirus. ZIKV was initially isolated in 1947 from a sentinel monkey in the Zika forest, Uganda. Little clinical importance was attributed to ZIKV, once only few symptomatic cases were reported in some African and Southeast Asiatic countries. This situation changed in 2007, when a large outbreak was registered on the Yap Island, Micronesia, caused by the Asian ZIKV lineage. Between 2013 and 2014, ZIKV spread explosively and caused many outbreaks in different islands of the Southern Pacific Ocean and in 2015 autochthonous transmission was reported in Brazil. Currently, Brazil is the country with the highest number of ZIKV-positive cases in Latin America. Moreover, for the first time after the discovery of ZIKV, the Brazilian scientists are studying the possibility for the virus to cause severe congenital infection related to microcephaly and serious birth defects due to the time-spatial coincidence of the alarming increase of newborns with microcephaly and the Brazilian ZIKV epidemic. The present review summarizes recent information for ZIKV epidemiology, clinical picture, transmission, diagnosis and the consequences of this emerging virus in Brazil. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 290 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 283 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 54 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 53 | 18% |
| Researcher | 36 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 7% |
| Other | 53 | 18% |
| Unknown | 46 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 66 | 23% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 49 | 17% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 33 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 5% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 13 | 4% |
| Other | 50 | 17% |
| Unknown | 65 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 May 2016.
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