The first case of Zika virus isolated from a Japanese patient who returned to Japan from Fiji in 2016

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 586-589

  Taira, Masakatsu ^a   Ogawa, Tomoko ^a   Nishijima, Haruna ^a   Yamamoto, Kojiro ^b   Hotta, Chiemi ^a   Akita, Mamiko ^a   Tajima, Shigeru ^c   Saijo, Masayuki ^c  

^a CHIBA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Chiba Shiroi Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; Whole genome sequence; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEVER; FIJI; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LEUKOPENIA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; TRAVEL RELATED DISEASE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FIJI; HUMANS; MALE; TRAVEL-RELATED ILLNESS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85030091826     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.JJID.2017.042     Document Type: Article

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