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SUBMITTER: Zhang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6266115 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Liding L Du Xuewei X Chen Congjie C Chen Zhixin Z Zhang Li L Han Qinqin Q Xia Xueshan X Song Yuzhu Y Zhang Jinyang J
Viruses 20181115 11
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-transmitted flavivirus that can cause severe disease, including congenital birth defect and Guillain-Barré syndrome during pregnancy. Although, several molecular diagnostic methods have been developed to detect the ZIKV, these methods pose challenges as they cannot detect early viral infection. Furthermore, these methods require the extraction of RNA, which is easy to contaminate. Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is an important biomarker for early diagnosi ...[more]