Prior dengue virus infection and risk of Zika: A pediatric cohort in Nicaragua.
Aubree GordonLionel GreshSergio OjedaLeah C KatzelnickNery SanchezJuan Carlos MercadoGerardo ChowellBrenda LopezDouglas ElizondoJosefina ColomaRaquel A BinderGuillermina KuanAngel BalmasedaEva HarrisPublished in: PLoS medicine (2019)
These findings support that prior DENV infection may protect individuals from symptomatic Zika. More research is needed to address the possible immunological mechanism(s) of cross-protection between ZIKV and DENV and whether DENV immunity also modulates other ZIKV infection outcomes such as neurological or congenital syndromes.