| revising rates of asymptomatic zika virus infection based on sentinel surveillance data from french overseas territories. | french polynesia and the french territories of the americas (ftas) have experienced outbreaks of zika virus (zikv) infection. these territories used similar sentinel syndromic surveillance to follow the epidemics. however, the surveillance system only takes into account consulting patients diagnosed with zikv disease, while non-consulting cases, as well as asymptomatic cases, are not taken into account. in the french territories under study, the ratio of consulting to non-consulting patients was ... | 2017 | 29081369 |
| effect of acute zika virus infection on sperm and virus clearance in body fluids: a prospective observational study. | evidence of human sexual transmission during zika virus emergence is a matter of concern, particularly in procreation, but to date, kinetics of seminal shedding and the effects of infection on human reproductive function have not been described. to investigate the effects of zika virus infection on semen and clearance of zika virus from semen and body fluids, we aimed to study a cohort of zika virus-infected men. | 2017 | 28838639 |
| acute myelitis due to zika virus infection. | | 2016 | 26946926 |
| the french experience of the threat posed by zika virus. | | 2016 | 27397775 |
| severe thrombocytopenia after zika virus infection, guadeloupe, 2016. | severe thrombocytopenia during or after the course of zika virus infection has been rarely reported. we report 7 cases of severe thrombocytopenia and hemorrhagic signs and symptoms in guadeloupe after infection with this virus. clinical course and laboratory findings strongly suggest a causal link between zika virus infection and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia. | 2017 | 27997330 |
| infectious zika virus in vaginal secretions from an hiv-infected woman, france, august 2016. | a woman with controlled hiv infection developed in late august 2016 a pruritic rash with fever and conjunctival hyperaemia after a trip to the french caribbean islands. on day 3 after symptom onset, zika virus rna was detected in plasma, urine and vaginal samples with respective viral loads of 3.8, 6.1 and 5.3 log copies/ml. notably, we demonstrated the presence of infectious zika virus particles in the vaginal samples by isolation in cell culture. | 2017 | 28128730 |