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SUBMITTER: Silva SJRD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7019470 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silva Severino Jefferson Ribeiro da SJRD Pardee Keith K Pena Lindomar L
Viruses 20191223 1
The recent outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas and its devastating developmental and neurological manifestations has prompted the development of field-based diagnostics that are rapid, reliable, handheld, specific, sensitive, and inexpensive. The gold standard molecular method for lab-based diagnosis of ZIKV, from either patient samples or insect vectors, is reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). The method, however, is costly and requires lab-based equ ...[more]