The Asia-Pacific origins of the current outbreaks of Zika virus

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne arbovirus from the Flaviviridae family, first isolated in 1947 from a monkey in Uganda. In the ensuing decades up to the 2000s, there have been sporadic reports of infections and seropositivity in humans in Africa and Asia1,2. The first isolation of ZIKV outside...

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Main Author: Sam, Jamal I-Ching
Format: Article
Published: CSIRO Publishing 2018
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/20792/
https://doi.org/10.1071/MA18026
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