A recursive sub-typing screening surveillance system detects the appearance of the ZIKV African lineage in Brazil: Is there a risk of a new epidemic?

Abstract

There is currently no system to track the emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) subtypes. We developed a surveillance system able to retrieve sequence submissions and further classify distinct ZIKV genotypes in the world. This approach was able to detect a new occurrence of ZIKV from an African lineage in Brazil in 2019.

Keywords

• Genomic surveillance
• Virus subtype analysis
• Database
• Lineage molecular epidemiology