South-east Asian Zika virus strain linked to cluster of cases in Singapore, August 2016

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 21, Issue 38, 2016, Pages

  Maurer Stroh, Sebastian ^a,b,c,d   Mak, T ^d   Ng, Y ^d   Phuah, S ^d   Huber, R G ^a   Marzinek, J K ^a,b   Holdbrook, D A ^a   Lee, R T ^a   Cui, L ^d   Lin, R T ^d,e  

^a BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SINGAPORE; VIRUS STRAIN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ZIKA VIRUS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER;

VIRUS RNA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGAPORE; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84990889251     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.38.30347     Document Type: Article

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