| phylogenetic analyses of chikungunya virus among travelers in rio de janeiro, brazil, 2014-2015. | chikungunya virus (chikv) is a mosquito-borne pathogen that emerged in brazil by late 2014. in the country, two chikv foci characterized by the east/central/south africa and asian genotypes, were established in north and northeast regions. we characterized, by phylogenetic analyses of full and partial genomes, chikv from rio de janeiro state (2014-2015). these chikv strains belong to the asian genotype, which is the determinant of the current northern brazilian focus, even though the genome sequ ... | 2016 | 27120007 |
| chikungunya virus infection: report of the first case diagnosed in rio de janeiro, brazil. | initially diagnosed in africa and asia, the chikungunya virus has been detected in the last three years in the caribbean, italy, france, and the united states of america. herein, we report the first case for rio de janeiro, brazil, in 2010. | 2012 | 22370844 |
| zika virus infection in pregnant women in rio de janeiro. | background zika virus (zikv) has been linked to central nervous system malformations in fetuses. to characterize the spectrum of zikv disease in pregnant women and infants, we followed patients in rio de janeiro to describe clinical manifestations in mothers and repercussions of acute zikv infection in infants. methods we enrolled pregnant women in whom a rash had developed within the previous 5 days and tested blood and urine specimens for zikv by reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction ... | 2016 | 26943629 |