Zika virus outbreak: 'a perfect storm'

Jing-Wen Ai¹, Ying Zhang^{1

2}, Wenhong Zhang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China.
² Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
³ MOH and MOE Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.

Jing-Wen Ai et al. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2016.

. 2016 Mar 9;5(3):e21.

doi: 10.1038/emi.2016.42.

Jing-Wen Ai¹, Ying Zhang^{1

2}, Wenhong Zhang^{1

3}

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China.
² Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
³ MOH and MOE Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.

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