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Sexual transmission of Zika virus and other flaviviruses: A living systematic review.

Michel Jacques CounotteCaron Rahn KimJingying WangKyle T BernsteinCarolyn D DealNathalie Jeanne Nicole BroutetNicola Low
Published in: PLoS medicine (2018)
The living systematic review and sexual transmission framework allowed us to assess evidence about the risk of sexual transmission of ZIKV. ZIKV is more likely transmitted from men to women than from women to men. For other flaviviruses, evidence of sexual transmissibility is still absent. Taking into account all available data about the duration of detection of ZIKV in culture and from the serial interval, our findings suggest that the infectious period for sexual transmission of ZIKV is shorter than estimates from the earliest post-outbreak studies, which were based on reverse transcription PCR alone.
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