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    • Detection of Zika virus in saliva 

      Musso, Didier; Roche, Claudine; Nhan, Tu-Xuan (2016)
      Background: During the largest Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak ever reported that occurred from October 2013 to March 2014 in French Polynesia, we observed that several patients presenting the symptoms of acute phase Zika fever ...
    • Potential sexual transmission of Zika virus 

      Musso, Didier; Roche, Claudine; Robin, Emilie; et al. (2016)
      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 ...
    • Zika Virus, French Polynesia, South Pacific, 2013 

      Cao-Lormeau, Van-Mai; Roche, Claudine; Teissier, Anita; et al. (2014)
      Isolated in 1947 from a rhesus monkey in Zika forest, Uganda, Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus (1). For half a century, ZIKV was described only as causing sporadic human infections in Africa and Asia, which ...