Zika virus: High infectious viral load in semen, a new sexually transmitted pathogen?

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 405-

  Mansuy, Jean Michel ^a   Dutertre, Marine ^a,b   Mengelle, Catherine ^a   Fourcade, Camille ^a   Marchou, Bruno ^a,b   Delobel, Pierre ^a,b   Izopet, Jacques ^a,b   Martin Blondel, Guillaume ^a,b  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b France   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; HEMOSPERMIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SOUTH AMERICA; SPERM; TROPICAL DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS LOAD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84959486036     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00138-9     Document Type: Letter

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