Enhanced mosquito vectorial capacity underlies the Cape Verde Zika epidemic.

The explosive emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) across the Pacific and Americas since 2007 was associated with hundreds of thousands of human cases and severe outcomes, including congenital microcephaly caused by ZIKV infection during pregnancy. Although ZIKV was first isolated in Uganda, Africa has so...

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Published in:PLoS Biology
Main Authors: Noah H Rose, Stéphanie Dabo, Silvânia da Veiga Leal, Massamba Sylla, Cheikh T Diagne, Oumar Faye, Ousmane Faye, Amadou A Sall, Carolyn S McBride, Louis Lambrechts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-10-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001864