title: ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION IN AUSTRALIA FOLLOWING A MONKEY BITE IN INDONESIA.
abstract: A traveller returning to Australia developed Zika virus infection, with fever, rash and conjunctivitis, with onset five days after a monkey bite in Bali, Indonesia. Flavivirus RNA detected on PCR from a nasopharyngeal swab was sequenced and identified as Zika virus. Although mosquito-borne transmission is also possible, we propose the bite as a plausible route of transmission. The literature for non-vector transmissions of Zika virus and other flaviviruses is reviewed.
authors.forename: Grace H Y
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Baird
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Druce
authors.forename: Nicholas M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Anstey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001315:Australia; D001483:Base Sequence; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications* / Q000821:virology*; D005076:Exanthema / Q000209:etiology; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D008251:Macaca / Q000821:virology*; D008297:Male; D009305:Nasopharynx / Q000821:virology; D012367:RNA, Viral; D000071244:Zika Virus / Q000235:genetics; D000071243:Zika Virus Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000635:transmission
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral