Potential Impact of Sexual Transmission on Ebola Virus Epidemiology: Sierra Leone as a Case Study.
BACKGROUND:Sexual transmission of Ebola virus disease (EVD) 6 months after onset of symptoms has been recently documented, and Ebola virus RNA has been detected in semen of survivors up to 9 months after onset of symptoms. As countries affected by the 2013-2015 epidemic in West Africa, by far the la...
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Main Authors: | Jessica L Abbate (Author), Carmen Lia Murall (Author), Heinz Richner (Author), Christian L Althaus (Author) |
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2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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