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Zika virus infections imported to Portugal, the National Reference Laboratory experience: The importance of sample collection time lapse in diagnosis
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Zika virus (ZIKV) belongs to the genus Flavivirus and was first
isolated from the blood of a febrile sentinel rhesus monkey during
a study of yellow fever in 1947, in Zika Forest, Uganda. ZIKV
is transmitted by Aedes sp. Mosquitoes, as Dengue, Yellow fever
and Chikungunya viruses, and was until recently considered a
mild pathogenic mosquito-borne flavivirus with very few reported
human cases of self-limiting acute febrile illnesses most often with
maculopapular rash, headache, malaise and conjunctivitis, all followed
by full recovery without sequel. During 60 years, cases of
ZIKV infections were detected only sporadically in Africa, and South
and Southeast Asia. (...)
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Presentation at ESCV 2016: Oral 39
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Zika Virus Flavivirus Laboratory Experience Sample Collection Diagnosis Portugal National Reference Laboratory Infecções Sistémicas e Zoonoses
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Abstracts / Journal of Clinical Virology. 2016;82(Suppl):S21. doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2016.08.040
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Elsevier