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(Inserm), Nicholas J. Loman(University of Birmingham), Hadja Aïssatou Bah(Donka Hospital), Hawa Bah(Donka Hospital), Mary Claire Worrell(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), lya Saidou Conde, Ramata Sacko, Samuel Mesfin, Angelo Loua, Jacques Katomba Kalonda(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Ngozi Erondu(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Benjamin A. Dahl(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Susann Handrick(Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine), Ian Goodfellow(University of Cambridge), Luke W. Meredith(University of Cambridge), Matthew Cotten, Umaru Jah(University of Makeni), Raoul Emeric Guetiya Wadoum(University of Rome Tor Vergata), Pierre E. Rollin(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), N’Faly Magassouba(Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry), Denis Malvy(Inserm), Xavier Anglaret(Inserm), Miles W. Carroll(Southampton General Hospital), Raymond Bruce Aylward(World Health Organization), Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey, Abdoulaye Diarra, Pierre Formenty(World Health Organization), Sakoba Keïta(Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene), Stephan Günther(Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine), Andrew Rambaut(Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution), Sophie Duraffour(Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine)
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Abstract
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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