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
Open Access
- 11 August 2016
- journal article
- case report
- Published by European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) in Eurosurveillance
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
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus and Persistence in Semen, New Zealand, 2016Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
- Zika virus in semen of a patient returning from a non-epidemic areaThe Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016
- Sexual transmission of Zika virus in an entirely asymptomatic couple returning from a Zika epidemic area, France, April 2016Eurosurveillance, 2016
- Late sexual transmission of Zika virus related to persistence in the semenThe Lancet, 2016
- Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Zika VirusThe New England Journal of Medicine, 2016
- Detection of Zika Virus in SemenEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
- Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Women of Reproductive Age with Possible Zika Virus Exposure — United States, 2016Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 2016
- Zika virus: high infectious viral load in semen, a new sexually transmitted pathogen?The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016
- Zika virus infection: global update on epidemiology and potentially associated clinical manifestations.2016
- Comparison of Flavivirus Universal Primer Pairs and Development of a Rapid, Highly Sensitive Heminested Reverse Transcription-PCR Assay for Detection of Flaviviruses Targeted to a Conserved Region of the NS5 Gene SequencesJournal of Clinical Microbiology, 2001