Late sexual transmission of Zika virus related to persistence in the semen

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10037, 2016, Pages 2501-

  Turmel, Jean Marie ^a   Abgueguen, Pierre ^a   Hubert, Bruno ^b   Vandamme, Yves Marie ^a   Maquart, Marianne ^c   Le Guillou Guillemette, Hélène ^a   Leparc Goffart, Isabelle ^c  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Regional Office of the French Public Health Agency   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE DES ARMÉES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LETTER; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPERM; TRAVEL; URINALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

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

EID: 84973538504     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30775-9     Document Type: Letter

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