Zika virus in an American recreational traveler

DJ Summers, RW Acosta… - Journal of travel medicine, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We report the case of a 48-year-old American traveler who presented to our clinic with diffuse
rash, malaise, fatigue, fever, arthralgia, low back pain, and bilateral exudative conjunctivitis…

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus disease in travelers returning to the United States, 2010–2014

MJ Hennessey, M Fischer, AJ Panella… - The American journal …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus that typically causes a mild febrile illness
with rash, arthralgia, or conjunctivitis. Zika virus has recently caused large outbreaks of …

The clinical spectrum of Zika virus in returning travelers

E Meltzer, E Leshem, Y Lustig, G Gottesman… - The American journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Introduction The clinical spectrum of Zika virus had, to date, been described in small series
from endemic/epidemic countries and is not well established. Methods We describe the …

Zika in travellers 1947–2017: a systematic review

A Wilder-Smith, CR Chang… - Journal of travel medicine, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Travellers contributed substantially to the rapid spread of Zika virus (ZIKV). They
act as sentinel and may unmask ongoing ZIKV transmission in countries where outbreaks …

Zika virus infections from the perspective of the general practitioner

M Gańczak - Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 2016 - termedia.pl
A–Study Design, B–Data collection, C–Statistical analysis, D–Data interpretation, E–Manuscript
Preparation, F–Literature Search, G–Funds collection in February 2016, the World …

Zika virus: diagnostics for an emerging pandemic threat

JJ Waggoner, BA Pinsky - Journal of clinical microbiology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an Aedes mosquito-borne flavivirus that emerged in Brazil in 2015 and
then rapidly spread throughout the tropical and subtropical Americas. Based on clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus: history of a newly emerging arbovirus

N Wikan, DR Smith - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016 - thelancet.com
Zika virus was originally identified in a sentinel rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest of Uganda
in 1947. The virus is a member of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, and is transmitted …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus emergence and expansion: lessons learned from dengue and chikungunya may not provide all the answers

RC Christofferson - The American journal of tropical medicine and …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Following the emergence of Zika in the past decade, there are lessons to be learned from
similar emergence events of dengue (DENV) and chikungunya (CHIKV). Specifically, as Zika …

[HTML][HTML] An ecological assessment of the pandemic threat of Zika virus

CJ Carlson, ER Dougherty, W Getz - PLoS Neglected Tropical …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The current outbreak of Zika virus poses a severe threat to human health. While the range of
the virus has been cataloged growing slowly over the last 50 years, the recent explosive …

[HTML][HTML] Zika Virus-Associated Aseptic Meningitis and Guillain–Barre Syndrome in a Traveler Returning from Latin America: A Case Report and Mini-Review

JK Wright, L Castellani, C Lecce, A Khatib… - Current Infectious …, 2019 - Springer
ZIKV-associated Guillain–Barré syndrome presents with an accelerated clinical course
compared to classic post-infectious Guillain–Barré syndrome. Clinicians should anticipate and …