ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION-A REVIEW
Dawn VJ. K. Krishnakumar
Department of Pharmacy Practice, St James College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chalakudy, Thrissur, Kerala, India.
K. Jayaprakash
Department of Pharmacy Practice, St James College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chalakudy, Thrissur, Kerala, India.
L. Panayappan
St James Hospital Trust Pharmaceutical Research Centre (DSIR Certified), Chalakudy, Thrissur, Kerala, India.
It’s a virus belongs to the family flaviviridae. In 1947 scientists researching yellow fever placed a rhesus macaque in a cage in the Zika Forest (zika means "overgrown") near the East African Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda. The monkey developed a fever, and researchers isolated from its serum a transmissible agent that was first described as Zika virus in 1952. Current review explores the knowledge about zika virus infection and its life threatening difficulties
6 , 2 , 2016
68 - 70