Late sexual transmission of Zika virus related to persistence in the semen

Lancet. 2016 Jun 18;387(10037):2501. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30775-9. Epub 2016 Jun 7.

Authors

Jean Marie Turmel¹, Pierre Abgueguen², Bruno Hubert³, Yves Marie Vandamme², Marianne Maquart⁴, Hélène Le Guillou-Guillemette⁵, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, CHU Angers, 49933 Angers, France. Electronic address: jeanmarie.turmel@chu-angers.fr.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, CHU Angers, 49933 Angers, France.
³ Regional Office of the French Public Health Agency, Nantes, France.
⁴ French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute, Marseille, France.
⁵ Laboratory of Virology, CHU Angers, 49933 Angers, France.

PMID: 27287833
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30775-9

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Humans
Male
Semen / virology*
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral / transmission*
Zika Virus / isolation & purification*
Zika Virus Infection / transmission*