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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ekins S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4841202 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
F1000Research 20160209
The Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in the Americas has caused global concern that we may be on the brink of a healthcare crisis. The lack of research on ZIKV in the over 60 years that we have known about it has left us with little in the way of starting points for drug discovery. Our response can build on previous efforts with virus outbreaks and lean heavily on work done on other flaviviruses such as dengue virus. We provide some suggestions of what might be possible and propose an open drug discov ...[more]