Importation of Zika virus from Vietnam to Japan, November 2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1222-1225

  Hashimoto, Takehiro ^a   Kutsuna, Satoshi ^a   Tajima, Shigeru ^b   Nakayama, Eri ^b   Maeki, Takahiro ^b   Taniguchi, Satoshi ^b   Lim, Chang Kweng ^b   Katanami, Yuichi ^a   Takeshita, Nozomi ^a   Hayakawa, Kayoko ^a   Kato, Yasuyuki ^a   Ohmagari, Norio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVITIS; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; JAPAN; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VETERAN; VIRUS STRAIN; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; TRAVEL; URINE; VIET NAM; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RNA, VIRAL; SALIVA; TRAVEL; VIETNAM; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85021059691     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2307.170519     Document Type: Letter

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