Complete Genome Sequences of Identical Zika virus Isolates in a Nursing Mother and Her Infant

Gabriela M Blohm1,2, John A Lednicky3,4, Marilianna Márquez2,5

  • 1Department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Genome Announcements
|April 29, 2017
PubMed

Complete genome sequences were obtained for Zika viruses isolated from the breast milk of a Venezuelan patient and her child, who was exclusively breastfeeding at the time. These sequences are the first to be reported from a presumptive autochthonous postnatal transmission case from mother to child in Venezuela.

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