Estimating under-observation and the full size of the 2016 Zika epidemic in Rio de Janeiro.

The 2015-16 Zika epidemic spread quickly from north to south in Brazil. Two striking features were the much higher incidence in young adult women due to sexual transmission, and the serious congenital malformations and miscarriages associated to Zika infection in pregnant women. In this paper we use...

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Main Authors: Marcio M Bastos, Flávio Codeço Coelho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6193587?pdf=render