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Emerging Infectious Diseases/CDC

Authors:

Robert S. Lanciotti, Olga L. Kosoy, Janeen J. Laven, Jason O. Velez, Amy J. Lambert, Alison J. Johnson, Stephanie M. Stanfield and Mark R. Duffy

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus first isolated in Uganda from a sentinel monkey in 1947. Mos- quito and sentinel animal surveillance studies have dem- onstrated that ZIKV is endemic to Africa and Southeast Asia, yet reported human cases are rare with <10 cases reported in the literature. In June 2007, an epidemic of fe- ver and rash associated with ZIKV was detected in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia. We report the ge- netic and serologic properties of the ZIKV associated with this epidemic.

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