Dominican Republic

The Broad Institute has release full Santo Domingo Zika sequences.

LOCUS KX766028 10680 bp RNA linear VRL 26-AUG-2016 DEFINITION Zika virus isolate R114916, complete genome. ACCESSION KX766028 VERSION KX766028.1 GI:1059853342 KEYWORDS . SOURCE Zika virus ORGANISM Zika virus Viruses; ssRNA viruses; ssRNA positive-strand viruses, no DNA stage; Flaviviridae; Flavivirus. REFERENCE 1 (bases 1 to 10680) AUTHORS Lanciotti,R.S. TITLE Direct Submission JOURNAL Submitted (23-AUG-2016) Diagnostic & Reference Laboratory, Arbovirus Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 3150 Rampart Road, Fort Collins, CO 80521,…

Public Health confirms 3 cases of microcephaly associated with zika By: EFEFecha: August 25, 2016En: portada2 Comments SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic.- The three babies born with microcephaly hospitals Independencia, Santo Domingo and the National District are related to zika, transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, the same dengue and chikungunya, inform this Thursday Ministry of Public Health. He explained in a statement that although the mothers of the babies said they had not submitted suspicious symptoms of the disease during pregnancy, one doctor who attended the birth documented in the clinical record a transient rash on the abdomen, compatible with …

The National Epidemiological Surveillance System (MOH), Ministry of Dominican Health reported the second case with morphological features compatible with microcephaly, said Friday the Department of Maternal and Child Health and Adolescent (DIGEMIA). This is a girl 6.5lbs who was born on July 17, in good general condition in the San Bartolomé hospital, Neiba province Baoruco, with head circumference compatible with microcephaly, said the director of DIGEMIA, José Mordán, through a statement posted on the website of the Ministry. The mother did not present history of virus infection during pregnancy, so the hospital authorities sent the sample to the reference laboratory an…

Dominican authorities are investigating the birth of a child with congenital abnormalities, including microcephaly, and its possible relationship to Zika virus, reported the Health Minister, Altagracia Guzman Marcelino. The child was born in a hospital in Barahona province (southwest) after a threat of abortion of his mother, who lives in La Discovered in Independencia province, also in the southwest. The boy's mother, 27, attended six prenatal consultations in a Primary Care Unit (UNAP) in the Discovered and was conducted five sonography. It was not until the last sonography, on June 27, when the woman was 35 weeks gestation, specialists moderate microcephaly detected in…

University of Padua has released full Zika sequences (Dominican Republic/2016/PD1 & Dominican Republic/2016/PD2) collected Feb 1, 2016 from urine and saliva from Padua Italy traveler who returned from Dominican Republic http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KU853012 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KU853013

THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – at least 10 cases confirmed according to the World Health Organization. Zika Americas By The NumbersPublished on Jan 29 2016, at 8:05 amFACEBOOKEMAILPINTERESTTWITTERGOOGLE+LINKEDIN A health worker calls out to residents to remain inside during fumigation in an attempt to eradicate the mosquito which transmits the Zika virus on January 28, 2016 in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) By NAN Staff Writer News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Jan. 29, 2016: The mosquito-virus Zika continues to spread across the Americas – Latin America and the Caribbean. Arrival of the virus in some countries of the Americas, notably Bra…