Journal
BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC BRAS DIVULG CIENTIFICA
DOI: 10.1590/1414-431X20165420
Keywords
Zika virus; ZIKV; Transmission; Epidemiology; Congenital infection; Brazil
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Funding
- Fundacao de Amparo e Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo-FAPESP, Brazil [2009/16623-1]
- CTC [1998/14. 247-6]
- INCTC [2008/57.877-3]
- Conselho Nacional do Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil (INCTC) [573.754/2008-0]
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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.
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