Prolonged detection of Zika virus RNA in urine samples during the ongoing Zika virus epidemic in Brazil
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2016-06Author
Campos, Renata de M.
Cirne-Santos, Claudio
Meira, Guilherme L.S.
et al.
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Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that belongs to the genus Flavivirus. ZIKV may cause Zika virus disease (ZVD) in humans that is characterized by fever, headache, myalgia and rash. The first autochthonous transmission of ZIKV in Brazil was demonstrated in 2015 for patients from Rio Grande do Norte [1] and it was shown that the epidemic ZIKV strain in Brazil belong to the Asian lineage [1,2]. Diagnosis of ZVD in humans is mainly based on RNA detection in serum or plasma samples.