Zika virus genital tract shedding in infected women of childbearing age

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 107-109

  Prisant, Nadia ^a   Breurec, Sébastien ^a,b,c,d   Moriniere, Catherine ^a   Bujan, Louis ^e,f   Joguet, Guillaume ^a  

^a Centre D'Étude et de Conservation des OEufs et Du Sperme Humain CECOS Caraïbes   (Guadeloupe)

^b Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Pointe Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^c Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES   (France)

^e TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS; VAGINAL SECRETION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS SHEDDING; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; ADULT; BLOOD; GENETICS; GUADELOUPE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TRANSMISSION; URINE; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GUADELOUPE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS SHEDDING; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85015167857     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw669     Document Type: Letter

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