Combination of surveillance tools reveals that Yellow Fever virus can remain in the same Atlantic Forest area at least for three transmission seasons

BACKGROUND In Brazil, the Yellow Fever virus (YFV) is endemic in the Amazon, from where it eventually expands into epidemic waves. Coastal south-eastern (SE) Brazil, which has been a YFV-free region for eight decades, has reported a severe sylvatic outbreak since 2016. The virus spread from the nort...

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Main Authors: Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu, Edson Delatorre, Alexandre Araújo Cunha dos Santos, Anielly Ferreira-de-Brito, Márcia Gonçalves de Castro, Ieda Pereira Ribeiro, Nathália Dias Furtado, Waldemir Paixão Vargas, Mário Sérgio Ribeiro, Patrícia Meneguete, Myrna Cristina Bonaldo, Gonzalo Bello, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2019-04-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762019000100321&lng=en&tlng=en