Zika virus in semen: lessons from Ebola

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1107-1108

  Purpura, Lawrence J ^a   Choi, Mary J ^a   Rollin, Pierre E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDOM USE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPERM; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA VIRUS; BLOOD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER;

VIRUS RNA;

EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84990043635     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30330-9     Document Type: Letter

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