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. 2016 Jul;10(7):DM01-3.
doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2016/19170.8133. Epub 2016 Jul 1.

Zika Virus: An Emergence of a New Arbovirus

Sankalp Yadav  1 , Gautam Rawal  2 , Mudit Baxi  3
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Zika Virus: An Emergence of a New Arbovirus

Sankalp Yadav et al. J Clin Diagn Res. 2016 Jul.

Abstract

The world is facing a new pandemic in progress due to a mosquito-borne flavivirus popularly known as Zika virus. The emergence of this new virus is really alarming with the sudden increment in the cases of microcephaly reported from Brazil. The findings attributing the involvement of Zika virus as the reason for congenital deformations in the babies born in afflicted areas have really shocked the world. The present knowledge about this virus is very limited and in the absence of further studies the precautions seems to be the best way of protection from this virus. The present article is a short review about this new virus.

Keywords: Aedes; Flavivirus; French polynesia; Serum; Yap.

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