The olympically mismeasured risk of Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro – Authors' reply

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10045, 2016, Pages 658-659

  Massad, Eduardo ^a,b   Coutinho, Francisco Antonio Bezerra ^a   Wilder Smith, Annelies ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c LEE KONG CHIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBOVIRUS; COLD; DENGUE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MOSQUITO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FEVER; WINTER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; BRAZIL; RISK;

BRAZIL; HUMANS; RISK; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84989167938     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31228-4     Document Type: Letter

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