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Zika Virus in the Americas — Yet Another Arbovirus Threat

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: The explosive pandemic of Zika virus infection in South and Central America is the most recent of four unexpected arrivals of important arthropod-borne viral diseases in the Western Hemisphere over the past 20 years. Is this an important new disease-emergence pattern?

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

DOI: 10.1056/nejmp1600297

Authors: Anthony S. Fauci, David M. Morens

Institution: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Language: English

Topic: Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2260741209

FWCI: 194

Cites: 3

Cited by: 1,102

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