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ReviewCurrent opinion in HIV and AIDS2025

Zika virus: an overview update.

Hanna K de Jong, Martin P Grobusch

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Review in Current opinion in HIV and AIDS, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hanna K de JongCenter of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam Public Health - Global Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Martin P GrobuschCenter of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam Public Health - Global Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewAlthough cases of Zika virus disease (ZVD) have declined globally since 2017, new outbreaks have been reported, such as in Asia in 2024. As there is no vaccine or treatment available to date, both vaccines and mAbs neutralizing Zika virus would be of great interest, especially for pregnant women and immunocompromised patients such as those living with HIV. This review focuses on new insights regarding ZVD in the last two years and summarizes the key literature on global epidemiology, transmission, diagnostics, clinical features, preventive measures, and treatment options. RECENT

findingsAt the time of writing, ZVD is endemic across tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with the highest risk of infection in Latin America and the Caribbean, but no significant peaks in outbreak activity across endemic regions. There are ongoing efforts to further investigate the clinical and epidemiological long-term sequelae of the large outbreak in the Americas 2015-2018; further refinement of diagnostic tools to improve specificity in view of significant cross-reactivity potential, particularly with dengue virus. Multiple vaccines are in different clinical development stages; however, phase 3 trials are awaiting the next epidemic. SUMMARY: While there is no current major zika virus outbreak, progress has been made in the epidemiological work-up of clinical-epidemiological data, refinement of diagnostic tools, and mainly preventive (vaccines) rather than curative (drugs) tools.

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Zika VirusZika Virus InfectionDisease OutbreaksFemaleHumansPregnancyViral VaccinesViral Vaccinesantiviralsarboviral diseasemAbsmicrocephalyprophylaxistravellerstropical infectious diseaseZika virus

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