Zika: structuring the European research response

Affiliations

¹ PREPARE, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Dept of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Dept of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
³ ISARIC Coordinating Centre, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Dept of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Dept of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Centre for Infectious Disease Control, RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.

Editorial

Louise Sigfrid et al. ERJ Open Res. 2016.

. 2016 Mar 17;2(1):00025-2016.

doi: 10.1183/23120541.00025-2016. eCollection 2016 Jan.

¹ PREPARE, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Dept of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
² Dept of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
³ ISARIC Coordinating Centre, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Dept of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Dept of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Centre for Infectious Disease Control, RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.

Abstract

Studies are needed to assess #Zika virus risks and to develop diagnostic tests http://ow.ly/ZaOZw.

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