Objectives: We aimed to report the first 54 cases of pregnant women infected by Zika virus (ZIKV) and their virologic and clinical outcomes, as well as their newborns' outcomes, in 2016, after the emergence of ZIKV in ...

Virus–host interactions determine an infection outcome. The Asian lineage of Zika virus (ZIKV), responsible for the recent epidemics, has fixed a mutation in the NS1 gene after 2012 that enhances mosquito infection. Here ...

The yellow fever (YF) vaccine has been used since the 1930s to prevent YF, which is a severe infectious disease caused by the yellow fever virus (YFV), and mainly transmitted by Culicidae mosquitoes from the genera Aedes ...

Visando investigar a patogenicidade do Flavivirus Ilhéus (VILH) foi inoculada, via intraperitoneal, 9,8 DL de suspensão 50 viral em hamsters dourados jovens (Mesocricetus auratus) e, diariamente, soros e vísceras (cérebro, ...

A imunidade de equinos (n = 1401) contra o vírus da encefalite Saint Louis (SLEV) foi investigada na Amazônia brasileira (Bragança/PA, Salvaterra/PA, Macapá/AP e Rio Branco/AC) e Maracaju, no Estado do Mato Grosso do Sul, ...

Pará State comprises 26% of Brazilian Amazon Region where a large diversity of arboviruses has been described. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and distribution of hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) that detect ...

Yellow fever virus (YFV) causing a deadly viral disease is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes. In Brazil, YFV is restricted to a forest cycle maintained between non-human primates and forest-canopy mosquitoes, ...

Zika is a mosquito-borne disease associated with neurological disorders that causes an on-going pandemic. The first outbreak was recorded in Micronesia in 2007, then in French Polynesia in 2014 from which it spread to South ...