Authors
Nuno R Faria, Joshua Quick, Ingra M Claro, Julien Theze, Jacqueline G de Jesus, Marta Giovanetti, Moritz UG Kraemer, Sarah C Hill, Allison Black, Antonio C da Costa, Luciano C Franco, Sandro P Silva, C-H Wu, Jayna Raghwani, Simon Cauchemez, Louis du Plessis, Mariana P Verotti, Wanderson K de Oliveira, Eduardo H Carmo, Giovanini Evelim Coelho, ACFS Santelli, Livia C Vinhal, CM Henriques, JT Simpson, Matthew Loose, Kristian G Andersen, ND Grubaugh, Sneha Somasekar, Charles Y Chiu, JE Muñoz-Medina, CR Gonzalez-Bonilla, Carolina Fócil Arias, LL Lewis-Ximenez, SA Baylis, AO Chieppe, SF Aguiar, CA Fernandes, PS Lemos, BLS Nascimento, HAO Monteiro, IC Siqueira, MG De Queiroz, TR De Souza, JF Bezerra, MR Lemos, GF Pereira, D Loudal, LC Moura, R Dhalia, RF França, T Magalhães, ET Marques Jr, Thomas Jaenisch, GL Wallau, MC De Lima, V Nascimento, EM De Cerqueira, MM De Lima, DL Mascarenhas, JP Moura Neto, AS Levin, TR Tozetto-Mendoza, SN Fonseca, MC Mendes-Correa, FP Milagres, Aluisio Segurado, Edward C Holmes, Andrew Rambaut, Trevor Bedford, MRT Nunes, Ester C Sabino, LCJ Alcantara, Nicholas J Loman, Oliver G Pybus
Publication date
2017/6/15
Journal
Nature
Volume
546
Issue
7658
Pages
406-410
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
Transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas was first confirmed in May 2015 in northeast Brazil. Brazil has had the highest number of reported ZIKV cases worldwide (more than 200,000 by 24 December 2016) and the most cases associated with microcephaly and other birth defects (2,366 confirmed by 31 December 2016). Since the initial detection of ZIKV in Brazil, more than 45 countries in the Americas have reported local ZIKV transmission, with 24 of these reporting severe ZIKV-associated disease. However, the origin and epidemic history of ZIKV in Brazil and the Americas remain poorly understood, despite the value of this information for interpreting observed trends in reported microcephaly. Here we address this issue by generating 54 complete or partial ZIKV genomes, mostly from Brazil, and reporting data generated by a mobile genomics laboratory that travelled across northeast Brazil in 2016. One …
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