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SUBMITTER: Couto-Lima D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5501812 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170707 1
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, where humans can be tangentially infected. Since late 2016, a growing number of human cases have been reported in Southeastern Brazil at the gates of the most populated areas of South America, the Atlantic coast, with Rio de Janeiro state hosting nearly 16 million people. We sh ...[more]