Zika virus outbreak: 'A perfect storm'

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ai, Jing Wen ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Zhang, Wenhong ^a,c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; EPIDEMIC; FETAL MICROCEPHALY; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICROCEPHALY; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; VIROLOGY;

BRAZIL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MICROCEPHALY; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84960328865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2016.42     Document Type: Short Survey

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