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. 2016 Sep 29;8(1):97.
doi: 10.1186/s13073-016-0356-2.

Mobile real-time surveillance of Zika virus in Brazil

Nuno Rodrigues Faria  1 , Ester C Sabino  2 , Marcio R T Nunes  3   4 , Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara  5 , Nicholas J Loman  6 , Oliver G Pybus  1
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Mobile real-time surveillance of Zika virus in Brazil

Nuno Rodrigues Faria et al. Genome Med. .

Abstract

The World Health Organization has declared Zika virus an international public health emergency. Knowledge of Zika virus genomic epidemiology is currently limited due to challenges in obtaining and processing samples for sequencing. The ZiBRA project is a United Kingdom-Brazil collaboration that aims to improve this situation using new sequencing technologies.

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Fig. 1
Number of whole virus genomes available for the Asian genotype of Zika virus present in the Americas and beyond. The bar plot shows the cumulative number of Zika virus (ZIKV) genomes from each World Health Organization (WHO) geographic region (see key). The dashed black line indicates the cumulative number of countries affected by the 2015–2016 ZIKV epidemic as of 14 July 2016 [5]. The red line indicates the cumulative number of notified cases in Brazil according to the Brazilian Ministry of Health. An estimate of the sampling proportion (number of ZIKV genomes from Brazil per 10,000 ZIKV notified cases in Brazil) is shown above each bar, from 2015 onwards. Dec December, Jun June
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