flavivirus

“His lab has really populated the flavivirus field,” Dr. Cameron said, referring to the virus family that includes hepatitis C virus.

Antibodies help to protect individuals against flavivirus infections.

Zika is a flavivirus, a family that includes dengue and Japanese encephalitis, which are also transmitted by mosquitoes.

Zika, a member of the flavivirus family, has circulated in Africa and Asia for decades but had never been seen in the Americas before it surfaced in Brazil in 2015.

Pardo returned to the U.S., when she was 16 weeks pregnant, and tested positive for dengue, which, like Zika, is a flavivirus.