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SUBMITTER: Zambrana JV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6140532 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zambrana José Victor JV Bustos Carrillo Fausto F Burger-Calderon Raquel R Collado Damaris D Sanchez Nery N Ojeda Sergio S Carey Monterrey Jairo J Plazaola Miguel M Lopez Brenda B Arguello Sonia S Elizondo Douglas D Aviles William W Coloma Josefina J Kuan Guillermina G Balmaseda Angel A Gordon Aubree A Harris Eva E
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180827 37
In 2015, a Zika epidemic in Brazil began spreading throughout the Americas. Zika virus (ZIKV) entered Managua, Nicaragua, in January 2016 and caused an epidemic that peaked in July-September 2016. ZIKV seropositivity was estimated among participants of pediatric (<i>n</i> = 3,740) and household (<i>n</i> = 2,147) cohort studies, including an adult-only subset from the household cohort (<i>n</i> = 1,074), in Managua. Seropositivity was based on a highly sensitive and specific assay, the Zika NS1 ...[more]