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SUBMITTER: Faria NR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6874500 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20180823 6405
The yellow fever virus (YFV) epidemic in Brazil is the largest in decades. The recent discovery of YFV in Brazilian <i>Aedes</i> species mosquitos highlights a need to monitor the risk of reestablishment of urban YFV transmission in the Americas. We use a suite of epidemiological, spatial, and genomic approaches to characterize YFV transmission. We show that the age and sex distribution of human cases is characteristic of sylvatic transmission. Analysis of YFV cases combined with genomes generat ...[more]