Ebola RNA Persistence in Semen of Ebola Virus Disease Survivors — Final Report
Author(s) -
Gibrilla F. Deen,
Nathalie Broutet,
Wenbo Xu,
Barbara Knust,
Foday Sesay,
Suzanna L. R. McDonald,
Elizabeth Ervin,
Jaclyn E. Marrinan,
Philippe Gaillard,
Ndema Habib,
Hongtu Liu,
William Liu,
Anna Thorson,
Francis Yamba,
Thomas Massaquoi,
Faustin James,
Archchun Ariyarajah,
Christine Ross,
Kyle Bernstein,
Antoine Coursier,
John D. Klena,
Marylin Carino,
Alie Wurie,
Yong Zhang,
Marion S. Dumbuya,
Neetu Abad,
Baimba Idriss,
Teodora Wi,
Sarah D. Bennett,
Tina Davies,
Faiqa K. Ebrahim,
Elissa Meites,
Dhamari Naidoo,
Samuel J. Smith,
Patricia Ongpin,
Tasneem Malik,
Anshu Banerjee,
Bobbie R. Erickson,
Yongjian Liu,
Yang Liu,
Ke Xu,
Aaron C. Brault,
Kara Durski,
Jörn Winter,
Tara K. Sealy,
Stuart T. Nichol,
Margaret Lamunu,
James Bangura,
Sihem Landoulsi,
Amara Jambai,
Oliver Morgan,
Guizhen Wu,
Mifang Liang,
Qiudong Su,
YuChing Lan,
Yanzhe Hao,
Pierre Formenty,
Ute Ströher,
Foday Sahr
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1511410
Subject(s) - ebola virus , sierra leone , medicine , virology , semen , ebolavirus , disease , persistence (discontinuity) , virus , vp40 , ebola hemorrhagic fever , andrology , development economics , economics , geotechnical engineering , engineering
Ebola virus has been detected in the semen of men after their recovery from Ebola virus disease (EVD). We report the presence of Ebola virus RNA in semen in a cohort of survivors of EVD in Sierra Leone.
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