Microcephaly Agent of Zika Virus And Unknowns by Healthcare Personnel
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Microcephaly and Zika virus.
a a i o c w n c f t P s i s t t c e The original isolation of the Zika virus (ZIKV), a Flavivirus member of the Flaviviridae family, was obtained in 1947 from the blood of a febrile rhesus monkey exposed at the Zika forest near Lake Victoria, in the outskirts of Entebbe, the capital of Uganda.1 ZIKV was also isolated from wild mosquitoes in the same area and later periodic human febrile cases w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Erciyes Medical Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2149-2247
DOI: 10.14744/etd.2019.72473