Understanding the Pathogenesis of the Emerging Zika Virus

American Society for Microbiology. 07/05/2016 This one-hour, eight-minute webinar focuses on how the speaker ' s laboratory has studied three emerging mosquito-transmitted viruses (West Nile, Chikungunya, and Zika viruses) of global importance from a basic perspective, and how this information facilitates the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. He discusses where the viruses come from, mosquito vectors, areas at risk, and Zika ' s emergence as a flavivirus. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - June 16, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news