Potential Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus
By D. Musso, C. Roche, Emilie Robin, T. Nhan, A. Teissier, Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
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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.
Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- 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).”
- Specificity, cross-reactivity, and function of antibodies elicited by Zika virus infection (2016, neutral): “sexually (4) and vertically transmitted (5).”
- Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings (2016, neutral): “Besides vector-borne and mother-to-child transmission, Zika virus may also spread via sexual contact (42, 43) and blood transfusion (44).”
- 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).”