Zika Virus in Semen: What We Know and What We Need to Know

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 285-292

  Gornet, Megan E ^a   Bracero, Nabal J ^b   Segars, James H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

male; semen; sexual transmission; Zika

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CARRIER; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; NONHUMAN; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA VIRUS; AEDES; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; PATHOGENICITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; SPERM; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SEMEN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VIRAL LOAD; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84991696411     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1592312     Document Type: Article

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