Zika virus in the female genital tract

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1000-1001

  Prisant, Nadia ^a   Bujan, Louis ^b,c   Benichou, Hélène ^a   Hayot, Pierre Humbert ^a   Pavili, Lynda ^a   Lurel, Sylvia ^a   Herrmann, Cecile ^a   Janky, Eustase ^a   Joguet, Guillaume ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; ADULT; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84999740047     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30193-1     Document Type: Letter

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