Infection dynamics in a traveller with persistent shedding of Zika virus RNA in semen for six months after returning from Haiti to Italy, January 2016 - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Infection dynamics in a traveller with persistent shedding of Zika virus RNA in semen for six months after returning from Haiti to Italy, January 2016

Luisa Barzon et al. Euro Surveill. 2016.

Abstract

We describe the dynamics of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in a man in his early 40s who developed fever and rash after returning from Haiti to Italy, in January 2016. Follow-up laboratory testing demonstrated detectable ZIKV RNA in plasma up to day 9 after symptom onset and in urine and saliva up to days 15 and 47, respectively. Notably, persistent shedding of ZIKV RNA was demonstrated in semen, still detectable at 181 days after onset.

Keywords: emerging or re-emerging diseases; imported viral diseases; laboratory surveillance; molecular methods; sexually transmitted infections; vector-borne infections.

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Conflicts of Interest: None declared.

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Clinical and laboratory findings in a patient with Zika virus infection returning from Haiti to Italy, January 2016

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Infection dynamics in a traveller with persistent shedding of Zika virus RNA in semen for six months after returning from Haiti to Italy, January 2016 - PubMed (original) (raw)