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CID: Male-to-Female Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus-United States, January-April 2016

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Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Oct 19. pii: ciw692. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Male-to-Female Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus-United States, January-April 2016.[/h] Russell K[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Hills SL[SUP]3[/SUP], Oster AM[SUP]4[/SUP], Porse CC[SUP]5[/SUP], Danyluk G[SUP]6[/SUP], Cone M[SUP]7[/SUP], Brooks R[SUP]8,[/SUP][SUP]9[/SUP], Scotland S[SUP]10[/SUP], Schiffman E[SUP]11[/SUP], Fredette C[SUP]12[/SUP], White JL[SUP]13[/SUP], Ellingson K[SUP]14[/SUP], Hubbard A[SUP]15[/SUP], Cohn A[SUP]16[/SUP], Fischer M[SUP]3[/SUP], Mead P[SUP]3[/SUP], Powers AM[SUP]3[/SUP], Brooks JT[SUP]4[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]

[h=3]Abstract[/h] We report on 9 cases of male-to-female sexual transmission of Zika virus in the United States occurring January-April 2016. This report summarizes new information about both timing of exposure and symptoms of sexually transmitted Zika virus disease, and results of semen testing for Zika virus from 2 male travelers.
Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2016. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Zika; Zika virus; semen.; sexual transmission

PMID: 27986688 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw692
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
 
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