Model-based projections of Zika virus infections in childbearing women in the Americas
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1 Department of Biological Sciences and Eck Institute for Global Health, 100 Galvin Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA 2 WorldPop Project, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK 3 Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK 4 Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
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