Zika virus (ZIKV) can be sexually transmitted and replicative particles were first detected in a semen sample from a patient during the 2013-14 French Polynesia outbreak. Here we describe the virus isolation from semen of a patient returning to Italy from Brazil.

Zika virus isolation from semen

Percivalle, Elena;Zavattoni, Maurizio;Baldanti, Fausto
;
Rovida, Francesca
2017-01-01

Abstract

Zika virus (ZIKV) can be sexually transmitted and replicative particles were first detected in a semen sample from a patient during the 2013-14 French Polynesia outbreak. Here we describe the virus isolation from semen of a patient returning to Italy from Brazil.
2017
Esperti anonimi
Inglese
Internazionale
STAMPA
40
3
197-198
Semen; Viral isolation; Zika virus; Animals; Brazil; Cercopithecus aethiops; Humans; Italy; Male; RNA, Viral; Semen; Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral; Travel; Vero Cells; Viral Load; Zika Virus; Zika Virus Infection
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4
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
262
Percivalle, Elena; Zavattoni, Maurizio; Baldanti, Fausto; Rovida, Francesca
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