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Case Reports
. 2016 Oct;22(10):1855-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid2210.160951. Epub 2016 Oct 15.

Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus and Persistence in Semen, New Zealand, 2016

Jay Harrower, Tomasz Kiedrzynski, Simon Baker, Arlo Upton, Fahimeh Rahnama, Jill Sherwood, Q Sue Huang, Angela Todd, David Pulford
Case Reports

Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus and Persistence in Semen, New Zealand, 2016

Jay Harrower et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: New Zealand; Zika; Zika virus; arboviral disease; arbovirus; flavivirus; semen; sexual transmission; viruses.

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