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Sexual transmission of Zika virus in Germany, April 2016
- Christina Frank1 , Daniel Cadar2 , Alexander Schlaphof2 , Neele Neddersen2 , Stephan Günther2 , Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit2,3,4 , Dennis Tappe2,3,4
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Robert Koch Institute, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Division of Gastrointestinal Infections, Zoonoses and Tropical Infections, Berlin, Germany 2 Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany 3 German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany 4 These authors contributed equally to this workJonas Schmidt-Chanasitjonassi gmx.de
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Citation style for this article: Frank Christina, Cadar Daniel, Schlaphof Alexander, Neddersen Neele, Günther Stephan, Schmidt-Chanasit Jonas, Tappe Dennis. Sexual transmission of Zika virus in Germany, April 2016. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(23):pii=30252. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.23.30252 Received: 29 May 2016; Accepted: 09 Jun 2016
Abstract
Zika virus (ZIKV), an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus, causes a mild dengue fever-like illness but has recently been associated with neurological disease and severe birth defects. The virus is currently causing a large epidemic in the Americas. Here, we report a male-to-female sexual transmission of ZIKV in Germany in April 2016, following travel to Puerto Rico of the male patient, demonstrated by subsequent seroconversions and molecular identification of identical virus sequences from both patients.

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