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ArticleAccess microbiology2025

Is the Zika virus re-emerging as a distinct genetic lineage in India?

Pradeep Kumar N, Ajithlal P M, Prasanta Saini, Aiswarya R S, Abidha Suresh, Philip Samuel, Balasubramaniam R, Jessu Mathew, Sonia T, Amju K P and 5 more

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Article in Access microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Pradeep Kumar NICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Kottayam, Kerala, India.ORCID 0000-0003-4504-4704
Ajithlal P MICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
Prasanta SainiICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indira Nagar, Puducherry, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8896-9160
Aiswarya R SICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Kottayam, Kerala, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6311-4318
Abidha SureshICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Kottayam, Kerala, India.ORCID 0000-0003-4950-5491
Philip SamuelICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Madurai, India.ORCID 0000-0001-8530-3489
Balasubramaniam RICMR-National Institute of Virology, Field Unit, Alappuzha, India.ORCID 0000-0002-5510-3096
Jessu MathewICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Kottayam, Kerala, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6179-7290
Sonia TICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Kottayam, Kerala, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6795-5026
Amju K PICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
Raju K H KICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indira Nagar, Puducherry, India.
Veerapathiran AICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Madurai, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6915-1734
Selvam AICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Madurai, India.ORCID 0009-0000-9787-9856
Balaji TICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Field Station, Madurai, India.ORCID 0000-0001-9467-7327
Ashwani KumarICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indira Nagar, Puducherry, India.ORCID 0000-0002-2485-7581

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An outbreak of Zika fever occurred in Thiruvananthapuram City, Kerala, India, during 2021. At the request of the Kerala state health administration, we investigated the same, towards proposing requisite containment strategies for the disease outbreak. Epidemiological investigations indicated a clustering pattern of Zika fever cases with the presumed index case from a multi-speciality hospital in the city. Preliminary reports on the same had been already reported elsewhere during 2021. Further, entomological surveys carried out evinced the predominant mosquito species in the city, viz.

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Asian lineageIndiare-emerging diseasesZIKV

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PMCPMC12078788

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