Persistent zika virus detection in semen in a traveler returning to the United Kingdom from Brazil, 2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 137-139

  Gaskell, Katherine M ^a,b   Houlihan, Catherine ^a   Nastouli, Eleni ^a,c   Checkley, Anna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; BLOOD; BRAZIL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; SPERM; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE; VIROLOGY;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAZIL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85006399809     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2301.161300     Document Type: Article

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