Differential virulence between Asian and African lineages of Zika virus

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Sep 21;11(9):e0005821. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005821. eCollection 2017 Sep.

Authors

Yannick Simonin¹, Debby van Riel², Philippe Van de Perre^{1

3}, Barry Rockx², Sara Salinas¹

Affiliations

¹ Pathogenesis and Control of Chronic Infections, INSERM/Université de Montpellier/ Etablissement Français du Sang, Inserm, Montpellier, France.
² Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
³ CHU de Montpellier, Department of Bacteriology-Virology, Montpellier, France.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Africa / epidemiology
Asia / epidemiology
Humans
Phylogeny
Virulence
Zika Virus / classification
Zika Virus / pathogenicity*
Zika Virus Infection / epidemiology
Zika Virus Infection / virology*

Grants and funding

This work was funded by REACting (https://www.inserm.fr/zoom/reacting-une-approche-multidisciplinaire-pourrelever-le-defi-des-crises-epidemiques). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.