Updated guidance for US laboratories testing for Zika virus infection

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Current guidance for US laboratories testing for Zika virus infection (https://www.cdc.gov/zika/laboratories/lab-guidance.html) recommends that testing be limited to specimens collected from patients meeting CDC’s clinical and/or epidemiologic criteria for testing (http://www.cdc.gov/zika/symptoms/index.html; http://www.cdc.gov/zika/hc-providers).1 Clinical signs and symptoms associated with Zika virus infection are discussed here: http://www.cdc.gov/zika/symptoms. Current Zika information and guidance is available on CDC’s Zika website at http://www.cdc.gov/zika. Information specific to laboratories is available at http://www.cdc.gov/zika/laboratories.
  
  Current information and guidance specific to Zika virus in Puerto Rico can be found on the Puerto Rico Department of Health website: http://www.salud.gov.pr/Sobre-tu-Salud/Pages/Condiciones/Zika.aspx.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Algorithms Clinical Laboratory Techniques Zika Virus Infection/diagnosis
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Pages in Document:
  16 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ed1e140d688c24ff7d57c51a79727451edc05653b00291e57cf1e841ca3a627f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/46879/cdc_46879_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 368.02 KB ]