Infectious Zika virus in vaginal secretions from an HIV-infected woman, France, August 2016.

Infectious Zika virus in vaginal secretions from an HIV-infected woman, France, August 2016.

Euro Surveill. 2017 Jan 19;22(3):

Authors: Penot P, Brichler S, Guilleminot J, Lascoux-Combe C, Taulera O, Gordien E, Leparc-Goffart I, Molina JM

Abstract
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.

PMID: 28128730 [PubMed - in process]

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