Establishment and cryptic transmission of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas

• Autor(a) principal: Faria, Nuno Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Quick, Joshua, Claro, Ingra Morales, Thézé, Julien, Jesus, J. G. de, Giovanetti, Marta, Kraemer, M. U. G, Hill, S. C, Black, A, Costa, Antonio Charlys da, Franco, Luciano Chaves, Silva, Sandro Patroca da, Wu, C. H, Raghwani, Jayna, Cauchemez, S, Du Plessis, L, Verotti, Mariana P, Oliveira, Wanderson Kleber de, Carmo, Eduardo Hage, Coelho, Giovanini E, Santelli, A. C. F. S, Vinhal, L. C, Henriques, Claudio Maierovitch, Simpson, J. T, Loose, Matthew William, Andersen, Kristian G, Grubaugh, Nathan D, Somasekar, S, Chiu, C. Y, Muñoz-Medina, J. E, Gonzalez-Bonila, Cesar Raul, Arias, Carlos F, Lewis-Ximenez, L. L, Baylis, S. A, Chieppe, A. O, Aguiar, Shirlei Ferreira de, Fernandes, Carlos Augusto, Lemos, Poliana S, Nascimento, B. L. S, Monteiro, Hamilton Antônio de Oliveira, Siqueira, Isadora C, Queiroz, M. G. de, Souza, T. R. de, Bezerra, João Felipe, Lemos, M. R, Pereira, G. F, Loudal, D, Moura, L. C, Dhalia, R, França, R. F, Magalhães, Tereza, Marques Junior, E. T, Jaenisch, Thomas, Wallau, Gabriel Luz, Lima, M. C. de, Nascimento, V, Cerqueira, Erenilde Marques de, Lima, Maricélia Maia de, Mascarenhas, D. L, Moura Neto, Jose Pereira, Levin, A. S, Tozetto-Mendoza, Tania Regina, Fonseca, S. N, Correa, M. Cassia Mendes, Milagres, Flavio Augusto de Padua, Segurado, Aluisio Cotrim, Holmes, Edward C, Rambaut, A, Bedford, T, Nunes, Márcio Roberto Teixeira, Sabino, Ester Cerdeira, Alcantara, Luiz Carlos Júnior, Loman, N. J, Pybus, O. G
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Digital do Instituto Evandro Chagas (Patuá)
• Texto Completo: https://patua.iec.gov.br/handle/iec/2875
• topic: Zika virus / isolamento & purificação; Zika virus / genética; Infecção pelo Zika virus / epidemiologia; Infecção pelo Zika virus / transmissão; Infecção pelo Zika virus / virologia; Filogenia; Filogeografia; Genoma Viral / genética; Variação Genética; Sequência de Bases; Biblioteca Genômica; Estudos Epidemiológicos; Américas / epidemiologia; Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Multiplex / métodos; Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa / métodos; Brasil / epidemiologia

Transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas was first confirmed in May 2015 in northeast Brazil. Brazil has had the highest number of reported ZIKV cases worldwide (more than 200,000 by 24 December 2016) and the most cases associated with microcephaly and other birth defects (2,366 confirmed by 31 December 2016). Since the initial detection of ZIKV in Brazil, more than 45 countries in the Americas have reported local ZIKV transmission, with 24 of these reporting severe ZIKV-associated disease. However, the origin and epidemic history of ZIKV in Brazil and the Americas remain poorly understood, despite the value of this information for interpreting observed trends in reported microcephaly. Here we address this issue by generating 54 complete or partial ZIKV genomes, mostly from Brazil, and reporting data generated by a mobile genomics laboratory that travelled across northeast Brazil in 2016. One sequence represents the earliest confirmed ZIKV infection in Brazil. Analyses of viral genomes with ecological and epidemiological data yield an estimate that ZIKV was present in northeast Brazil by February 2014 and is likely to have disseminated from there, nationally and internationally, before the first detection of ZIKV in the Americas. Estimated dates for the international spread of ZIKV from Brazil indicate the duration of pre-detection cryptic transmission in recipient regions. The role of northeast Brazil in the establishment of ZIKV in the Americas is further supported by geographic analysis of ZIKV transmission potential and by estimates of the basic reproduction number of the virus.