Risk Factors for Ebola Virus Persistence in Semen of Survivors - Liberia.
Jonathan DyalAaron D KofmanJomah Z KollieJohn FankhauserRomeo OroneMoses J SokaUriah GlayboArmah KiawuEdna FreemanGiovanni GiahHenry D TonyMylene FaikaiMary JawaraKuku KamaraSamuel KamaraBenjamin FlowersMohammed L KromahRodel Desamu-ThorpeJames GrazianoShelley BrownMaria E Morales-BetoulleDeborah L CannonKaihong SuSusanne L LindermanMateusz PlucinskiEric RogierRichard S BradburyW Evan SecorKatherine E BowdenChristi PhillipsMary N CarringtonYeon-Hwa ParkMaureen P MartinMaria Del Pilar AguinagaRobert MushiDana L HaberlingElizabeth D ErvinJohn D KlenaMoses MassaquoiTolbert NyenswahStuart T NicholDavid E ChiribogaDesmond E WilliamsSteven H HinrichsRafi AhmedBenjamin T VonhmPierre E RollinLawrence J PurpuraMary J ChoiPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
Older age, decreased illness severity, elevated total serum IgG3 and HLA-C*03:04 allele expression may be risk factors for the persistence of EBOV in the semen of EVD survivors. EBOV persistence in semen may also be associated with its persistence in other immunologically protected sites, such as the eye.