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

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Blohm GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5408108 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature