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. 2021 Jun;304(6):1194-1201.
doi: 10.1002/ar.24622. Epub 2021 Apr 8.

Zika virus outbreak in Brazil-Lessons learned and perspectives for a safe and effective vaccine

Marco Aurélio Palazzi Sáfadi  1 , Flavia J Almeida  1 , Renato de Ávila Kfouri  2
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Zika virus outbreak in Brazil-Lessons learned and perspectives for a safe and effective vaccine

Marco Aurélio Palazzi Sáfadi et al. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2021 Jun.
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Abstract

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging pathogen of public health concern, associated with a dramatic burden in places where the virus caused outbreaks between 2015 and 2017. In the Americas, the ZIKV was first reported in Brazil and rapidly spread through the Americas. Since its first report, a number of studies have been published as we continue to learn, not only about modes of transmission, but also clinical manifestations, risk of congenital anomalies, including microcephaly and neurological malformations in fetuses born from mothers infected during pregnancy. Interventions to reduce the burden of ZIKV infection are restricted to mosquito control, and for Aedes spp mosquitoes the strategies implemented to that end proved to be unsuccessful so far. Hence the lessons we can learn following the ZIKV epidemics become of paramount importance in the development of drug treatments and in search for a vaccine.

Keywords: Guillain-Barré syndrome; Zika; congenital; congenital Zika syndrome; microcephaly; neurological.

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