Zika virus: Transmission, detection, control, and prevention

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2017, Pages

  Sharma, Anshika ^a   Lal, Sunil K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Flavivirus infection; Guillain Barr syndrome; Microcephaly; Sylvatic cycle; Zika diagnosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN MALFORMATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLAVIVIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA VIRUS;

EID: 85014479550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00110     Document Type: Review

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