Zika virus epidemic: Africa should not be neglected

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10042, 2016, Pages 337-338

  Meda, Nicolas ^a   Salinas, Sara ^b   Kagoné, Thérèse ^a   Simonin, Yannick ^b   Van de Perre, Philippe ^b,c  

^a CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; EPIDEMIC; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MICROCEPHALY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; AEDES; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; AFRICA; ANIMALS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84982105666     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31103-5     Document Type: Letter

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