Clinical Focus ›› 2016, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (4): 423-429.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-583X.2016.04.019

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Interpretation of the guidelines for prevention and control of lika virus disease released by American center for disease control and prevention

Song Ning,Guo Xianli,Liu Yue,Yuan Shengfang,Jia Weihua   

  1. Department of Infectious Diseases,the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University,Shijiazhuang 050000,China
  • Received:2016-03-14 Online:2016-04-05 Published:2016-04-18
  • Contact: Song Ning,Email:1469713257@qq.com

Abstract: Recently,United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released several guidelines for the evaluation and testing of Zika virus (ZIKV) in neonatal, infant,young children and pregnant women during a ZIKV outbreak, and published an interim guideline for the prevention of sexual transmission of ZIKV.This paper reviewed the current research progress of ZIKV and Zika virus disease (ZVD),and interpreted the CDC guidelines.The course covered biological characteristics, epidemic trends, clinical manifestations, route of transmission, laboratory examinations, diagnostic criteria,treatments and prevention protocols of ZIKV infection and ZVD in special population groups and etc,in order to improve the clinicians' understanding of ZIKV and ZVD.

Key words: flavivirus infection, Zika virus, primary prevention, secondary prevention, clinical protocols, guideline

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