Open AccessZika virus testing of asymptomatic patients undergoing assisted reproduction in Curitiba, Brazil
Author(s) -
Ricardo Ditzel Delle Donne,
Janaina Almeida Furlan,
Danilo Rahal,
Marília Porto Bonow,
Vinícius Bonato da Rosa,
Alessandro Gomes Schuffner
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jbra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1518-0557
pISSN - 1517-5693
DOI - 10.5935/1518-0557.20200063
Subject(s) - asymptomatic , zika virus , medicine , curitiba , incidence (geometry) , population , virology , virus , pediatrics , environmental health , humanities , philosophy , physics , optics
The objective is to report recent data on the infection and detection of Zika virus in infertile couples and to discuss the need to make disease surveillance compulsory in this population in order to decrease the burden on the healthcare system and expedite treatment onset.