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1 day ago · Review information for healthcare providers on how to treat and prevent Zika virus disease.
5 days ago · Progress update on the WHO–US FDA collaborative project on the review and use of online repository for difficult-to-treat infections
3 days ago · Facts. Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and CNN. Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family as yellow fever, West Nile ...
3 days ago · Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus with a lipid envelope, belonging to the Flavivirus genus. This virus was initially isolated in 1947 from a Rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest (Uganda) (1). At first, infection with ZIKV results in asymptomatic or self-limiting diseases, such as fever, arthralgia, and conjunctivitis in most healthy adults (2). In ...
3 days ago · Dengue virus, composed of four distinct serotypes (DENV1–4), and Zika virus (ZIKV) are antigenically related, mosquito-borne flaviviruses that cause a substantial global health burden (1–3). Both flaviviruses are transmitted by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, co-circulate in many countries, and cause major epidemics worldwide .
1 day ago · symptoms of zika infection: fever, rash, joint or bone pain, body or muscle pain, painful or red eyes and headache. In previous analyses of these data, a cutoff of 3 or more symptoms was used to define symptomatic infection. The same definition was used in studies of symptoms of West Nile Virus (Custer et al. 2019; Lanteri et al. 2019).
4 days ago · Similarly, human IgG treatment controlled Zika viremia in pregnant rhesus macaques. These researchers wrote, 'Determining clinical and safety endpoints beyond symptomatic infection for Phase III trials will be important and key to encouraging vaccine uptake and using mAbs for prophylaxis and/or treatment.'
