Not exact matches
In addition, Kao said, the study showed that the Zika
virus protein is similar in structure to proteins from
viruses that cause dengue fever, West Nile
virus, Japanese
encephalitis virus and hepatitis C, which prompted the team to test
several compounds that combat those diseases.
De Groot and her colleagues compared the genomes of a Japanese
encephalitis virus and a strain of West Nile
virus that killed
several people in New York in 1999.
Neither
virus causes fatalities in healthy people, but there are
several other arboviral infections (various
encephalitis viruses, yellow fever, west Nile fever and Rift Valley fever) carried by the insect as well as a dog roundworm that also infects wild animals and cats.