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Zika Virus: An Overview

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The Zika virus is an arboviral disease (i.e., transmitted by a bite from an infected arthropod such as a mosquito) from the Flavivirus genus of the Flaviviridae family, its main vector being the Aedes aegypti [1]. There are also reports of sexual transmission, as well as viral detection in urine [2] and tears [3].

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  1. Mauricio de Nassau University, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Maria de Fátima Viana Vasco Aragão M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Centro Diagnóstico Multimagem, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Maria de Fátima Viana Vasco Aragão M.D., Ph.D.

  3. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

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  4. Hospital Barão de Lucena, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Luziany Carvalho Araújo M.D.

  5. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Marcelo Moraes Valença

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de Fátima Viana Vasco Aragão, M., de Holanda, A.C., Araújo, L.C., Valença, M.M. (2017). Zika Virus: An Overview. In: Vasco Aragão, M. (eds) Zika in Focus. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53643-9_1

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