TY - JOUR AU - Mansuy, Jean Michel AU - Mengelle, Catherine AU - Pasquier, Christophe AU - Chapuy-Regaud, Sabine AU - Delobel, Pierre AU - Martin-Blondel, Guillaume AU - Izopet, Jacques T1 - Zika Virus Infection and Prolonged Viremia in Whole-Blood Specimens T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 5 SP - 863 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We tested whole-blood and plasma samples from immunocompetent patients who had had benign Zika virus infections and found that Zika virus RNA persisted in whole blood substantially longer than in plasma. This finding may have implications for diagnosis of acute symptomatic and asymptomatic infections and for testing of blood donations. KW - Zika virus KW - viruses KW - whole blood KW - plasma KW - viremia KW - RNA KW - blood donation KW - vector-borne infections KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid2305.161631 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/5/16-1631_article ER - End of Reference