Zika virus in semen: A prospective cohort study of symptomatic travellers returning to Belgium;Présence du virus zika dans le sperme: Étude prospective de cohorte de voyageurs symptomatiques de retour en Belgique;El virus del zika en el semen: Un estudio prospectivo de cohortes de viajeros sintomáticos que regresan a Bélgica

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 802-809

  Huits, Ralph ^a   De Smet, Birgit ^a   Ariën, Kevin K ^a   Van Esbroeck, Marjan ^a   Bottieau, Emmanuel ^a   Cnops, Lieselotte ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NEUTRALIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RNA; SPERM; SYMPTOM; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS DISEASE;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EMPORIATRICS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEMOSPERMIA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEUKOCYTE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MASTURBATION; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; TROPICAL MEDICINE; VASECTOMY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS SHEDDING; YOUNG ADULT; ZIKA FEVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GENETICS; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPERM; TIME FACTOR; TRAVEL; VIROLOGY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ZIKA VIRUS;

BELGIUM; CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ZIKA VIRUS;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAS; BELGIUM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, IMPORTED; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85037033664     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.17.181370     Document Type: Article

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