Yellow fever outbreak in Brazil: The puzzle of rapid viral spread and challenges for immunisation

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 1-12

  Possas, Cristina ^a   Lourenço De oliveira, Ricardo ^a   Tauil, Pedro Luiz ^b   Pinheiro, Francisco de Paula ^a   Pissinatti, Alcides ^c   da Cunha, Rivaldo Venâncio ^a   Freire, Marcos ^a   Martins, Reinaldo Menezes ^a   Homma, Akira ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Estadual do Ambiente RJ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Eco social factors; Human immunisation; Monkey immunisation; Vaccine; Vaccine production; Yellow fever

Indexed keywords

YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

AEDES; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMATE DISEASE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; URBANIZATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIROLOGY; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIMATE DISEASES; URBANIZATION; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 85056670469     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180278     Document Type: Review

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