Global epidemiology of Zika and Chikungunya virus human infections

Zika virus was discovered in 1947. The first reported case of Zika fever was in a sentinel rhesus monkey in Uganda in 1947, while the first human cases were reported in Nigeria in 1954. Since the first evidence of human infection, Zika was active in several countries in Africa and Asia, as sporadic...

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Main Authors: Silvia Zannoli, Manuela Morotti, Agnese Denicolò, Martina Tassinari, Claudia Chiesa, Anna Pierro, Vittorio Sambri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2017-10-01
Series:Microbiologia Medica
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Online Access:http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/mm/article/view/7054