著者

Hiroki Ozawa Shigeru Tajima Eri Nakayama Kengo Kato Akifumi Yamashita Tsuyoshi Sekizuka Makoto Kuroda Shuzo Usuku

出版者

National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases Editorial Committee

雑誌

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.JJID.2017.256, (Released:2017-12-26)

参考文献数

14

被引用文献数

3

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Zika virus (ZIKV) infection has been documented within Central and South America, Asia, and Africa. Here we report the isolation of virus from a patient infected with ZIKV returning to Japan from the Dominican Republic. The ZIKV strain was imaged by electron microscopy and its complete genome sequence was analyzed. Phylogenetic analysis and molecular characterization revealed that the strain was of the Asian lineage, and carried two unique mutations in its NS5 region. These mutations are characteristic of strains that originated in the Dominican Republic and the USA in 2016.