Resurgence of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea Linked to a Survivor With Virus Persistence in Seminal Fluid for More Than 500 Days.

Boubacar Diallo; Daouda Sissoko; Nicholas J Loman; Hadja Aïssatou Bah; Hawa Bah; Mary Claire Worrell; Lya Saidou Conde; Ramata Sacko; Samuel Mesfin; Angelo Loua; +22 more... Jacques Katomba Kalonda; Ngozi A Erondu; Benjamin A Dahl; Susann Handrick; Ian Goodfellow; Luke W Meredith; Matthew Cotten ORCID logo; Umaru Jah; Raoul Emeric Guetiya Wadoum; Pierre Rollin; N'Faly Magassouba; Denis Malvy; Xavier Anglaret; Miles W Carroll; Raymond Bruce Aylward; Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey; Abdoulaye Diarra; Pierre Formenty; Sakoba Keïta; Stephan Günther; Andrew Rambaut; Sophie Duraffour; (2016) Resurgence of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea Linked to a Survivor With Virus Persistence in Seminal Fluid for More Than 500 Days. Clinical infectious diseases, 63 (10). pp. 1353-1356. ISSN 1058-4838 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw601
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We report on an Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivor who showed Ebola virus in seminal fluid 531 days after onset of disease. The persisting virus was sexually transmitted in February 2016, about 470 days after onset of symptoms, and caused a new cluster of EVD in Guinea and Liberia.


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