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Potential Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus

Didier Musso, Claudine Roche, Emilie Robin, Anita Teissier, Van‐Mai Cao‐Lormeau

Emerging infectious diseases · 2015 · 1.2K citations · 12 references

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Abstract

In December 2013, during a Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in French Polynesia, a patient in Tahiti sought treatment for hematospermia, and ZIKV was isolated from his semen. ZIKV transmission by sexual intercourse has been previously suspected. This observation supports the possibility that ZIKV could be transmitted sexually.

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