"Zika Virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An arbovirus in the FLAVIVIRUS genus of the family FLAVIVIRIDAE. Originally isolated in the Zika Forest of UGANDA it has been introduced to Asia and the Americas.
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D000071244
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.820.250.350.995
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Zika Virus" by people in Profiles.
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Van Rompay KKA, Coffey LL, Kapoor T, Gazumyan A, Keesler RI, Jurado A, Peace A, Agudelo M, Watanabe J, Usachenko J, Singapuri A, Immareddy R, Ardeshir A, Stuart JB, Bournazos S, Ravetch JV, Balderes PJ, Lorenz IC, Esswein SR, Keeffe JR, Bjorkman PJ, Wang Q, Rice CM, MacDonald MR, Nussenzweig MC, Robbiani DF. A combination of two human monoclonal antibodies limits fetal damage by Zika virus in macaques. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 04 07; 117(14):7981-7989.
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Lee AJ, Bhattacharya R, Scheuermann RH, Pickett BE. Identification of diagnostic peptide regions that distinguish Zika virus from related mosquito-borne Flaviviruses. PLoS One. 2017; 12(5):e0178199.
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Sun G, Larsen CN, Baumgarth N, Klem EB, Scheuermann RH. Comprehensive Annotation of Mature Peptides and Genotypes for Zika Virus. PLoS One. 2017; 12(1):e0170462.
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Scheuermann RH. Zika virus: designate standardized names. Nature. 2016 Mar 10; 531(7593):173.