Anticipating the international spread of Zika virus from Brazil

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Divisions of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
² Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ "Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
⁶ School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
⁷ Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁹ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: khank@smh.ca.

Isaac I Bogoch et al. Lancet. 2016.

. 2016 Jan 23;387(10016):335-336.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00080-5. Epub 2016 Jan 15.

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Divisions of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
² Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ "Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
⁶ School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
⁷ Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁹ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: khank@smh.ca.

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El Niño and climate change--contributing factors in the dispersal of Zika virus in the Americas?
Paz S, Semenza JC. Paz S, et al. Lancet. 2016 Feb 20;387(10020):745. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00256-7. Epub 2016 Feb 2. Lancet. 2016. PMID: 26850984 No abstract available.

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