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

Pauline Penot, Ségolène Brichler, Jean Guilleminot, Caroline Lascoux-Combe, Olivier Taulera, Emmanuel Gordien, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, Jean-Michel Molina

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2017 Jan 19

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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. This article is copyright of The Authors, 2017.

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Pauline Penot, Ségolène Brichler, Jean Guilleminot, Caroline Lascoux-Combe, Olivier Taulera, Emmanuel Gordien, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, Jean-Michel Molina. Infectious Zika virus in vaginal secretions from an HIV-infected woman, France, August 2016. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin. 2017 Jan 19;22(3)