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）.
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）.
