Zika virus in semen and spermatozoa

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1106-1107

  Mansuy, Jean Michel ^a   Suberbielle, Elsa ^b   Chapuy Regaud, Sabine ^a,b   Mengelle, Catherine ^a   Bujan, Louis ^a   Marchou, Bruno ^a   Delobel, Pierre ^a,b   Gonzalez Dunia, Daniel ^b   Malnou, Cécile E ^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

LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZIKA VIRUS; ADULT; BLOOD; FRANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSMISSION; URINE; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; FRANCE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84990040805     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30336-X     Document Type: Letter

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