Zika virus: An emerging infectious threat

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 525-530

  Ong, C W ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIKUNGUNYA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DENGUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MICROCEPHALY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; HISTORY; MOSQUITO; VIROLOGY; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CULICIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; VIRAL VACCINES; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84969256546     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imj.13059     Document Type: Editorial

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