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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 214, Issue 10, Pages 1475-1476Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw078
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Ebola virus; survivors; semen; Guinea; virus persistence; outbreak
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- French Ebola Task Force Interministerielle
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
- Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
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Ninety-eight semen specimens were obtained for Ebola virus (EBOV) RNA screening from 68 men in Guinea during the convalescent phase of EBOV infection. Ten samples from 8 men were positive for EBOV up to 9 months after onset of the disease, with decreasing trends in the proportion of positive samples and the level of viral RNA. Safe sex practices should be observed after discharge from treatment centers.
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