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Zika: As an emergent epidemic

Author(s) -

Braira Wahid,

Amjad Ali,

Shazia Rafique,

Muhammad Idrees

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

asian pacific journal of tropical medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.491

H-Index - 52

ISSN - 1995-7645

DOI - 10.1016/j.apjtm.2016.06.019

Subject(s) - zika virus , microcephaly , medicine , disease , pandemic , covid-19 , virology , virus , pediatrics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)

Zika virus is a new global threat for 2016 that has been swept to almost all Americas and is now posing serious threats to the entire globe. This deadly virus is playing havoc to unborn lives because of its reported association with upsurge of fetal deformation called microcephaly and neuropathic disorders including Guillain-Barré syndrome. Till today, there is no vaccine prospect, antiviral therapy or licensed medical countermeasures to curb the teratogenic outcomes of this destructive viral infection. Diagnosis, treatment, chronicity and pathogenesis are still vague and unsettled. Therefore, this review article addresses all the aspects related to this disease to mitigate the explosive rise in Zika virus infection.

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