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Editor, Senior Moderator
Eurosurveillance, Volume 21, Issue 23, 09 June 2016
Rapid communication
Sexual transmission of Zika virus in Germany, April 2016
C Frank [SUP]1[/SUP] , D Cadar [SUP]2[/SUP] , A Schlaphof [SUP]2[/SUP] , N Neddersen [SUP]2[/SUP] , S G?nther [SUP]2[/SUP] , J Schmidt-Chanasit [SUP]2[/SUP] [SUP]3[/SUP] [SUP]4[/SUP] , D Tappe [SUP]2[/SUP] [SUP]3[/SUP] [SUP]4[/SUP]
+ Author affiliations
1. Robert Koch Institute, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Division of Gastrointestinal Infections, Zoonoses and Tropical Infections, Berlin, Germany
2. Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany
3. German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany
4. These authors contributed equally to this work
Correspondence: Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit (jonassi@gmx.de)
Citation style for this article: Frank C, Cadar D, Schlaphof A, Neddersen N, G?nther S, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Tappe D. Sexual transmission of Zika virus in Germany, April 2016. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(23)
ii=30252. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.23.30252
Received:29 May 2016; Accepted:09 June 2016
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Zika virus (ZIKV), an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus, causes a mild dengue fever-like illness but has recently been associated with neurological disease and severe birth defects. The virus is currently causing a large epidemic in the Americas. Here, we report a male-to-female sexual transmission of ZIKV in Germany in April 2016, following travel to Puerto Rico of the male patient, demonstrated by subsequent seroconversions and molecular identification of identical virus sequences from both patients.
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=22498
Rapid communication
Sexual transmission of Zika virus in Germany, April 2016
C Frank [SUP]1[/SUP] , D Cadar [SUP]2[/SUP] , A Schlaphof [SUP]2[/SUP] , N Neddersen [SUP]2[/SUP] , S G?nther [SUP]2[/SUP] , J Schmidt-Chanasit [SUP]2[/SUP] [SUP]3[/SUP] [SUP]4[/SUP] , D Tappe [SUP]2[/SUP] [SUP]3[/SUP] [SUP]4[/SUP]
+ Author affiliations
1. Robert Koch Institute, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Division of Gastrointestinal Infections, Zoonoses and Tropical Infections, Berlin, Germany
2. Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany
3. German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany
4. These authors contributed equally to this work
Correspondence: Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit (jonassi@gmx.de)
Citation style for this article: Frank C, Cadar D, Schlaphof A, Neddersen N, G?nther S, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Tappe D. Sexual transmission of Zika virus in Germany, April 2016. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(23)
ii=30252. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.23.30252Received:29 May 2016; Accepted:09 June 2016
[h=4][/h]
Zika virus (ZIKV), an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus, causes a mild dengue fever-like illness but has recently been associated with neurological disease and severe birth defects. The virus is currently causing a large epidemic in the Americas. Here, we report a male-to-female sexual transmission of ZIKV in Germany in April 2016, following travel to Puerto Rico of the male patient, demonstrated by subsequent seroconversions and molecular identification of identical virus sequences from both patients.
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=22498