First Case of Laboratory-confirmed Zika Virus Infection Imported into China

作     者：Yuan-Bin Zhong Xiao-Qing Liu Yi-Chu Deng Ping-Hua Xu Gong-Rong Zhong Wei Zhang Zhong Yuan-Bin;Liu Xiao-Qing;Deng Yi-Chu;Xu Ping-Hua;Zhong Gong-Rong;Zhang Wei

作者机构：Department of Infectious Disease and Department of Respiratory Medicine The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University Nanchang Jiangxi 330006 China Jiangxi Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention Nanchang Jiangxi 330029 China Department of Infectious Disease Ganxian People's Hospital of Ganzhou Ganxian Jiangxi 341100 China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Medical Journal》 (中华医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第129卷第16期

页      面：2013-2014页

核心收录：

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100103[医学-病原生物学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：encephalitis viruses Venezuela 

摘      要：To the Editor： Zika virus （ZIKV） was first isolated from a rhesus monkey in the Zika forest in Uganda It is an emerging arbovirus of the Flaviviridae family, which includes Dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and Japanese encephalitis viruses, and causes a mosquito-borne disease transmitted by the Aedes genus. ZIKV was demonstrated explosion recently in American countries, especially in Brazil, Venezuela, and so on.We reported a case of laboratory-confirmed ZIKV infection imported into China from Venezuela. The patient developed fever, rash, myalgia, headache, and conjunctivitis after returning to China from Venezuela on February 6, 2016. Serological investigations revealed positive ZIKV-specific real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction （RT-PCR）.