Potential risk of re-emergence of urban transmission of Yellow Fever virus in Brazil facilitated by competent Aedes populations

Potential risk of re-emergence of urban transmission of Yellow Fever virus in Brazil facilitated by competent Aedes populations

Abstract Yellow fever virus (YFV) causing a deadly viral disease is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes. In Brazil, YFV is restricted to a forest cycle maintained between non-human primates and forest-canopy mosquitoes, where humans can be tangentially infected. Since late 2016, a growing...

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Main Authors: Dinair Couto-Lima, Yoann Madec, Maria Ignez Bersot, Stephanie Silva Campos, Monique de Albuquerque Motta, Flávia Barreto dos Santos, Marie Vazeille, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Anna-Bella Failloux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05186-3

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05186-3

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