Potential Mechanisms for Enhanced Zika Epidemic and Disease

Hongjie Xia; Xuping Xie; Chao Shan; Pei Yong Shi

doi:10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00004

Potential Mechanisms for Enhanced Zika Epidemic and Disease

Hongjie Xia, Xuping Xie, Chao Shan, Pei Yong Shi

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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Abstract

A number of mechanisms have driven the explosive epidemics and severe diseases of Zika virus since 2007. Here, we comment on how herd immunity, heterologous flavivirus preimmunity, and viral mutations could enhance the epidemic potential and disease severity of Zika virus in humans.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	656-659
Number of pages	4
Journal	ACS Infectious Diseases
Volume	4
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00004
State	Published - May 11 2018

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Infectious Diseases

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