Epidemiologic investigation of a family cluster of imported ZIKV cases in Guangdong, China: Probable human-to-human transmission

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Yin, Yingxian ^a   Xu, Yi ^a   Su, Ling ^a   Zhu, Xun ^b   Chen, Minxia ^a   Zhu, Weijin ^a   Xia, Huimin ^a   Huang, Xi ^b   Gong, Sitang ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

arbovirus; flavivirus; Guangdong; molecular epidemiology; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENVELOPE PROTEIN; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHINA; CHINESE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; ENVELOPE GENE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MOSQUITO BITE; NECK RASH; NEW YORK; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT ISOLATION; PHARYNX DISEASE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAVEL; URINALYSIS; VENEZUELA; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SALIVA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; URINE; VIROLOGY; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FAMILY HEALTH; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATIENT ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; SALIVA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRAVEL; URINE; VENEZUELA; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84987621976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2016.100     Document Type: Article

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