Probable Non–Vector-borne Transmission of Zika Virus, Colorado, USA

By B. Foy, Kevin C. Kobylinski, J. Foy, B. Blitvich, Amelia P. A. Travassos da Rosa, Andrew D. Haddow, R. Lanciotti, R. Tesh. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011

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Clinical and serologic evidence indicate that 2 American scientists contracted Zika virus infections while working in Senegal in 2008. One of the scientists transmitted this arbovirus to his wife after his return home. Direct contact is implicated as the transmission route, most likely as a sexually transmitted infection.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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1. Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau
2. D. Musso
3. Wenshuai Wang
4. Anna Marie Pyle

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Citations in the corpus

• Detection of Zika Virus in Urine (2015, background): “Studies have demonstrated that ZIKV is endemic to Africa and Southeast Asia (4).”
• Evidence of perinatal transmission of Zika virus, French Polynesia, December 2013 and February 2014. (2014, background): “Direct inter-human transmission, most likely by sexual intercourse, has been described [9].”
• Rapid spread of emerging Zika virus in the Pacific area. (2014, background): “Non-vector borne ZIKV transmission through sexual intercourse [8] and perinatal transmission [4] has been reported.”
• First report of autochthonous transmission of Zika virus in Brazil (2015, background): “Further studies are needed to unveil whether co-infection and subsequent infection by different arboviruses can affect the course of the disease, the occurrence of severe cases and the ways of transmission (vertical, perinatal, sexual) (Foy et al. 2011, Besnard et al. 2014, Musso et al. 2015).”
• A Mouse Model of Zika Virus Pathogenesis (2016, background): “Remarkably, the highest levels of ZIKV RNA (107 FFU equivalents per gram) were present in the testes, which could explain male-to-female sexual transmission of ZIKV observed in humans (Foy et al., 2011; Hills et al., 2016; Musso et al., 2015; Venturi et al., 2016).”
• Modified mRNA vaccines protect against Zika virus infection (2017, neutral): “Sexual transmission of ZIKV also has been described from men-to-women (Foy et al., 2011), men-to-men (Deckard Cell.”