@article{2e5bd0861ae0498f98ddac7885b98074,
title = "History and Emergence of Zika Virus",
abstract = "Zika virus was discovered in East Africa in 1947 by the Rockefeller Foundation during investigations on the ecology of yellow fever. Although it was subsequently shown to have widespread distribution in Africa and Asia, it was not known to cause epidemics until 2007. This paper describes the history of the virus discovery, emergence and evolution as an epidemic virus, and the its evolving clinical spectrum.",
keywords = "Aedes aegypti, GBS, Zika, microcephaly, mosquito",
author = "Gubler, {Duane J.} and Nikos Vasilakis and Didier Musso",
note = "Funding Information: Supplement sponsorship. This work is part of a supplement sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Funding Information: Financial support. This work was partially funded by Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore) and by National Institutes of Health Grants R24AI120942 and U01AI115577 (to University of Texas). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1093/infdis/jix451",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "216",
pages = "S860--S867",
journal = "Journal of Infectious Diseases",
issn = "0022-1899",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
}