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Zika Virus

"Zika Virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An arbovirus in the FLAVIVIRUS genus of the family FLAVIVIRIDAE. Originally isolated in the Zika Forest of UGANDA it has been introduced to Asia and the Americas.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Zika Virus" by people in this website by year, and whether "Zika Virus" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 27 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2016 and 2017 and 2018
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