- Sebastian Maurer-Stroh1,2,3,4, Tze-Minn Mak4, Yi-Kai Ng4, Shiau-Pheng Phuah4, Roland G Huber1, Jan K Marzinek1,2, Daniel A Holdbrook1, Raphael TC Lee1, Lin Cui4, Raymond TP Lin4,5
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 2 Department of Biological Sciences (DBS), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 3 School of Biological Sciences (SBS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 4 National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL), Ministry of Health (MOH), CDC2, Singapore 5 Department of Laboratory Medicine, National University Hospital, SingaporeSebastian Maurer-Strohsebastianms bii.a-star.edu.sg
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Citation style for this article: Maurer-Stroh Sebastian, Mak Tze-Minn, Ng Yi-Kai, Phuah Shiau-Pheng, Huber Roland G, Marzinek Jan K, Holdbrook Daniel A, Lee Raphael TC, Cui Lin, Lin Raymond TP. South-east Asian Zika virus strain linked to cluster of cases in Singapore, August 2016. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(38):pii=30347. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.38.30347 Received: 19 Sep 2016; Accepted: 22 Sep 2016
South-east Asian Zika virus strain linked to cluster of cases in Singapore, August 2016
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Zika virus (ZIKV) is an ongoing global public health emergency with 70 countries and territories reporting evidence of ZIKV transmission since 2015. On 27 August 2016, Singapore reported its first case of local ZIKV transmission and identified an ongoing cluster. Here, we report the genome sequences of ZIKV strains from two cases and find through phylogenetic analysis that these strains form an earlier branch distinct from the recent large outbreak in the Americas.

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