TY - JOUR AU - Musso, Didier AU - Roche, Claudine AU - Robin, Emilie AU - Nhan, Tuxuan AU - Teissier, Anita AU - Cao-Lormeau, Van-Mai T1 - Potential Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2015 VL - 21 IS - 2 SP - 359 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In December 2013, during a Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in French Polynesia, a patient in Tahiti sought treatment for hematospermia, and ZIKV was isolated from his semen. ZIKV transmission by sexual intercourse has been previously suspected. This observation supports the possibility that ZIKV could be transmitted sexually. KW - Zika virus KW - ZIKV KW - viruses KW - vectorborne KW - arthropod KW - French Polynesia KW - hematopsermia KW - sexual transmission KW - DO - 10.3201/eid2102.141363 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/2/14-1363_article ER - End of Reference