Mobile real-time surveillance of Zika virus in Brazil.
The World Health Organization has declared Zika virus an international public health emergency. Knowledge of Zika virus genomic epidemiology is currently limited due to challenges in obtaining and processing samples for sequencing. The ZiBRA project is a United Kingdom-Brazil collaboration that aims to improve this situation using new sequencing technologies.
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK.
Nuno Rodrigues
NR
Faria
Department of Infectious Diseases and Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Ester C
EC
Sabino
Center for Technological Innovation, Evandro Chagas Institute, Ministry of Health, Ananindeua, PA, 67030-000, Brazil.|Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
Marcio R T
MR
Nunes
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, 40296-710, Brazil.
Luiz Carlos Junior
LC
Alcantara
Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. n.j.loman@bham.ac.uk.
Nicholas J
NJ
Loman
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK.
Oliver G
OG
Pybus
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