Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2019)

Peripheral Plasma and Semen Cytokine Response to Zika Virus in Humans

  • Jean-Michel Mansuy,
  • Hicham El Costa,
  • Jordi Gouilly,
  • Catherine Mengelle,
  • Christophe Pasquier,
  • Guillaume Martin-Blondel,
  • Jacques Izopet,
  • Nabila Jabrane-Ferrat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2504.171886
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 4
pp. 823 – 825

Abstract

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We assessed Zika virus RNA and select cytokine levels in semen, blood, and plasma samples from an infected patient in South America. Viral RNA was detected in semen >2 months after viremia clearance; cytokine profiles differed in semen and plasma. After viremia, Zika virus appears to become compartmentalized in the male reproductive tract.

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