Rapid spread of an ongoing outbreak of Zika virus disease in pregnant women in a Mexican hospital

Abstract In the first nine weeks of implementation of a Zika Virus Preparedness Plan in a Mexican Public Hospital, we cared for 221 pregnant women with any signal or symptom suggesting Zika virus infection and 99 (44.8%) patients were found to be positive for Zika virus.The median age of patients was 25.3 years (range 13-49). Symptoms in PCR-positive patients were rash (91.4%) followed by headache (53.1%), myalgia (46.9%), arthralgia (45.7%), pruritus (35.8%), retroocular pain (29.6%), conjunctivitis (21%), and fever (21%). The women's epidemiologic exposure history indicates local transmission and a community outbreak.

Bibliometric analysis of global research production in Zika virus disease based on Web of Science / 中国人兽共患病学报

This paper described global output of scientific publications on Zika virus disease during 1990 to 2016.Based on its literature search and analysis tools integrated on the Web of Science,we analyzed the year-,country-,affiliation-and author-specific literature production,publication journals,and scopes and citation of publications.A total of 1 818 publications associated with Zika virus disease were retrieved in Web of Science,during the period from 1990 through 2016,92.68％ of the literatures were published in 2016.The 41.09 ％ of the literatures were published as "Original Article".The top 3 productive countries were USA,Brazil and France,and the top 3 productive affiliations were US CDC,Universidade de Sāo Paulo at Brazil and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in USA.The top 3 productive authors were Wiwanitkit Viroj,Musso Didier and Jamieson Denise J,and the most 3 cited authors were Musso Didier,Fischer Marc and Jamieson Denise J.A total of 111 publications by Chinese researchers were retrieved,ranking the fifth around the world,with the total citation of 727,with 6.5 citations per paper.From 1990 to 2016,American,Brazilian and French scientists contribute a lot to the research on Zika virus disease,which plays a very important role in promoting scientific development and academic communication.Chinese scientists also made contributions on Zika virus research in the science community during the past two years.