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October 2019
Dear All,

In this, our latest joint newsletter, the three EU funded Zika consortia are happy to update you on the achievements, publications and meetings over the past few months.
 
The sustainability of our work is a priority for all three Zika consortia, and we are delighted to announce that new grants have been awarded to several Zika research projects. These grants will ensure that the dedicated work undertaken to date will continue into the future.
 
An NIH-Fogarty grant has been awarded to ZikaPLAN partner and initiator of the Neuro-emerging viruses in the Americas study (NEAS), Johns Hopkins – Colombia. This will allow the continuation and further expansion of the NEAS work on Neuro Zika and other arboviruses in Colombia and beyond. ZikaPLAN member, the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health, is part of a consortium that has secured a grant from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for arboviral brain infection research. In addition, the Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany has received funding from the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Programme for the ReCoDID initiative, a multi-country, four-year project that began in January 2019 with a focus on the global response to emerging pathogens. The idea for the project was conceived when Dr. Thomas Jaenisch, ReCoDID’s principal investigator and a member of ZIKAlliance, was working together with colleagues from ZIKAlliance, ZikaPLAN and ZIKAction within our shared work package on data sharing, particularly with respect to the challenge of combining harmonised data sets from cohorts across the three consortia.
 
The data collected by ZIKAlliance, ZIKAction and ZikaPLAN is vital to research extending beyond the EU-funded consortia. A paper published in BMJ Open in June 2019 features a protocol funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that will allow the joint analysis of data collected by a variety of international research groups, including the three EU-funded Zika consortia, in the field of ZIKV infection during pregnancy: “Understanding the relation between Zika virus infection during pregnancy and adverse fetal, infant and child outcomes: a protocol for a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of longitudinal studies of pregnant women and their infants and children.”
 
Finally, the three consortia have continued strengthening their networks through collaborative meetings. The PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Control based at the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Pedro Kourí” (ZIKAlliance and ZikaPLAN member), the Cuban Society of Microbiology and Parasitology, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), and PAHO/WHO held the 16th International Course on Dengue, Zika and Other Emergent Arboviruses on August 12-23. The course represented an opportunity to review and update the regional and global epidemiological situation of dengue and Zika. ZikaPLAN held its General Assembly at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia on October 21-23. In addition to presentations on the latest research results, a conference was organized to share findings with the local healthcare community and journalists. Soon after this meeting, ZIKAction will be holding their annual consortium meeting, that will take place in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on November 8-9.
 
We hope you enjoy this issue of the cross-consortia newsletter, and invite you to contact your consortium’s communication officer with any suggestions for future content: Francesca at Francesca.Mazzetto@pentafoundation.org (ZIKAction), Giuseppe at Giuseppe.Paparella@ndm.ox.ac.uk (ZIKAlliance), and Koren at Koren.Wolman-Tardy@fondation-merieux.org (ZikaPLAN).
Best wishes,
 
Prof. Xavier de Lamballerie, ZIKAlliance Scientific Coordinator
Prof. Annelies Wilder-Smith, ZikaPLAN Scientific Coordinator
Prof. Carlo Giaquinto, ZIKAction Scientific Coordinator
Projects ZIKAlliance, ZikaPLAN, ZIKAction have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreements No 734548, 734584, 734857 respectively.
Collaboration Across the Consortia
Unravelling Congenital Zika Infection from The Host Perspective Using N-Counter Technology from Nanostring
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ZIKAlliance and ReCoDID working together to promote data and sample sharing across infectious disease cohort studies
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‘Nature Reviews Neurology’ publishes ZikaPLAN-supported landmark paper "Diagnosis and management of Guillain-Barré syndrome in ten steps"
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Publications from the Three Consortia
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Read more updates on the ZIKAlliance website here
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Read more updates on the ZikaPLAN website here
A peridomestic Aedes malayensis population in Singapore can transmit yellow fever virus
Miot et al. 
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, October 2019

The association of depression, anxiety, and stress with caring for a child with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Brazil; Results of a cross-sectional study
Kuper et al. 
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, September 2019


Access to healthcare for children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Brazil: perspectives of mothers and health professionals
Albuquerque et al. 
Health Policy and Planning, August 2019

Cell-Fusing Agent Virus Reduces Arbovirus Dissemination in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes In Vivo
Baidaliuk et al. 
Journal of Virology, June 2019


Estimating Past, Present, and Future Trends in the Global Distribution and Abundance of the Arbovirus Vector Aedes aegypti Under Climate Change Scenarios
Liu-Helmersson et al. 
Frontiers in Public Health, June 2019
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