Viral genome-based Zika virus transmission dynamics in a pediatric cohort during the 2016 Nicaragua epidemic

/ / Faculty Research in Latin America, Research

UC BERKELEY AUTHORS: Raquel A Binder, Fausto Bustos Carrillo, Eva Harris

DATE OF PUBLICATION: October 2021

REGION: Nicaragua

DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103596

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Nicaragua experienced a large Zika epidemic in 2016, with up to 50% of the population in Managua infected. With the domesticated Aedes aegypti mosquito as its vector, it is widely assumed that Zika virus transmission occurs within the household and/or via human mobility. We investigated these assumptions by using viral genomes to trace Zika transmission spatially.

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