Jan 10, 2022

Over the past decade, the Caribbean region has been challenged by compound climate and health hazards, including tropical storms, extreme heat and droughts and overlapping epidemics of mosquito-borne ...

Jan 10, 2022

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus from the Flaviviridae family and Flavivirus genus. Neurological events have been associated with ZIKV-infected individuals, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoi...

Jan 03, 2022

Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) are important receptors for regulating the killing of virus-infected or cancer cells of natural killer (NK) cells. KIR2DS2 can recognize peptides deriv...

Dec 27, 2021

Zika virus is an arthropod-borne virus that has recently emerged as a significant public health emergency due to its association with congenital malformations. Serological and molecular tests are typi...

Dec 27, 2021

This study intended to compare the effectiveness of thematic maps with that of tabular data in comprehension and memory of risk magnitudes, with Zika virus (ZIKV) disease outbreaks in the United State...

Dec 13, 2021

The syntheses of a series of novel 6-aza-2-hydroxyimino-5-methylpyrimidine and related nucleosides are described. A suitably protected 2-methylthiopyrimidine nucleoside was selected as the precursor f...

Dec 06, 2021

Zika virus (ZIKV) infections during pregnancy can lead to adverse neurodevelopmental and clinical outcomes in congenitally infected offspring. As the city of Recife in Pernambuco State, Brazil-the epi...

Dec 06, 2021

Intrauterine viral infections during pregnancy by pathogens such as Zika virus, Cytomegalovirus, Rubella and Herpes Simplex virus can lead to prenatal as well as postnatal neurodevelopmental disorders...

Nov 22, 2021

Dengue and zika are amongst the most prevalent mosquito-borne diseases caused by closely related members Dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV), respectively, of the family. DENV and ZIKV have bee...

Nov 22, 2021

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a positive-single strand RNA virus that belongs to the Flaviviridae family. ZIKV infection causes congenital ZIKV syndrome (CZS) in children and Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) in a...

Nov 15, 2021

Alphaviruses and flaviviruses have class II fusion glycoproteins that are essential for virion assembly and infectivity. Importantly, the tip of domain II is structurally conserved between the alphavi...

Nov 08, 2021

The relevant ecological changes due to the anthropological pressure on the planet is causing reactions in the biological systems, which we must understand and characterize at the local scale to assist...

Nov 08, 2021

In most experimental animals, it is challenging to combine mutations and rescue transgenes and to use bipartite systems to assess gene expression. To circumvent the difficulties in combining multiple ...

Nov 01, 2021

Dengue Virus (DENV) and ZIKA Virus (ZIKV) are two important human pathogens that belong to the Flavivirus genus of positive strand RNA viruses. Symptoms of DENV infections range from asymptomatic or m...

Nov 01, 2021

The Australian backyard mosquito, , is a highly urbanised pest species that has invaded New Zealand and the USA. Importantly, has been implicated as a vector of Ross River virus, a common and arthrit...

Oct 25, 2021

Transient receptor potential mucolipin 2 and 3 (TRPML2 and TRPML3), as key channels in the endosomal-lysosomal system, are associated with many different cellular processes, including ion release, mem...

Oct 25, 2021

Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya viruses represent a serious public health problem. No evidence is available on the efficacy of repellents commercially available in Brazil. This systematic review assessed...

Oct 18, 2021

The frequency of arboviral disease epidemics is increasing and vector control remains the primary mechanism to limit arboviral transmission. Container inhabiting mosquitoes such as Aedes albopictus an...

Oct 18, 2021

Zika virus (ZIKV) has been the cause of some epidemics since 2007. The correlations of microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome with ZIKV have been noticed. Unfortunately, researchers have yet to dev...

Oct 11, 2021

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 vi...