Zika Virus: An Overview

Autor: Maria de Fátima Viana Vasco Aragão, Arthur Cesário de Holanda, Luziany Carvalho Araújo, Marcelo Moraes Valença
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Zika in Focus ISBN: 9783319536422
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53643-9_1
Popis: The Zika virus is an arboviral disease (i.e., transmitted by a bite from an infected arthropod such as a mosquito) from the Flavivirus genus of the Flaviviridae family, its main vector being the Aedes aegypti [1]. There are also reports of sexual transmission, as well as viral detection in urine [2] and tears [3].
Databáze: OpenAIRE