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Aguilar Ticona JP, Baig H, Nery N, Doss-Gollin S, Sacramento GA, Adhikarla H, Muenker MC, Wunder EA, Nascimento EJM, Marques ETA, Reis MG, Ko AI, Costa F. Risk of sexually transmitted Zika virus in a cohort of economically disadvantaged urban residents. J Infect Dis 2021; 224:860-864. [PMID: 33395487 PMCID: PMC8522079 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
In order to understand the disease burden of sexually transmitted Zika virus (ZIKV), we prospectively followed a cohort of 359 adult and adolescent residents of an urban community in Salvador, Brazil through the 2015 ZIKV epidemic. Later, in 2017, we used a retrospective survey to associate sexual behavior during the epidemic with ZIKV infection as defined by IgG3-NS1 ELISA. We found that males who engaged in casual sexual encounters during the epidemic were more likely (ORa=6.2; 95%CI 1.2-64.1) to be ZIKV positive, suggesting that specific groups may be at increased risk of sexually transmitted infections.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA - Brazil.,Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz,Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, BA - Brazil
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- Yale University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz,Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, BA - Brazil
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Instituto Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz/MS, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz,Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, BA - Brazil.,Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA - Brazil.,Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Blitvich BJ, Magalhaes T, Laredo-Tiscareño SV, Foy BD. Sexual Transmission of Arboviruses: A Systematic Review. Viruses 2020; 12:v12090933. [PMID: 32854298 PMCID: PMC7552039 DOI: 10.3390/v12090933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Revised: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are primarily maintained in nature in transmission cycles between hematophagous arthropods and vertebrate hosts, but an increasing number of arboviruses have been isolated from or indirectly detected in the urogenital tract and sexual secretions of their vertebrate hosts, indicating that further investigation on the possibility of sexual transmission of these viruses is warranted. The most widely recognized sexually-transmitted arbovirus is Zika virus but other arboviruses, including Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus and dengue virus, might also be transmitted, albeit occasionally, by this route. This review summarizes our current understanding on the ability of arboviruses to be sexually transmitted. We discuss the sexual transmission of arboviruses between humans and between vertebrate animals, but not arthropod vectors. Every taxonomic group known to contain arboviruses (Asfarviridae, Bunyavirales, Flaviviridae, Orthomyxoviridae, Reoviridae, Rhabdoviridae and Togaviridae) is covered.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bradley J. Blitvich
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-515-294-9861; Fax: +1-515-294-8500
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- Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; (T.M.); (B.D.F.)
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- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA;
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- Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; (T.M.); (B.D.F.)
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Dénes A, Ibrahim MA, Oluoch L, Tekeli M, Tekeli T. Impact of weather seasonality and sexual transmission on the spread of Zika fever. Sci Rep 2019; 9:17055. [PMID: 31745123 PMCID: PMC6863851 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53062-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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We establish a compartmental model to study the transmission of Zika virus disease including spread through sexual contacts and the role of asymptomatic carriers. To incorporate the impact of the seasonality of weather on the spread of Zika, we apply a nonautonomous model with time-dependent mosquito birth rate and biting rate, which allows us to explain the differing outcome of the epidemic in different countries of South America: using Latin Hypercube Sampling for fitting, we were able to reproduce the different outcomes of the disease in various countries. Sensitivity analysis shows that, although the most important factors in Zika transmission are the birth rate of mosquitoes and the transmission rate from mosquitoes to humans, spread through sexual contacts also highly contributes to the transmission of Zika virus: our study suggests that the practice of safe sex among those who have possibly contracted the disease, can significantly reduce the number of Zika cases.
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- Attila Dénes
- Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Aradi vértanúk tere 1., Szeged, H-6720, Hungary.
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- Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Aradi vértanúk tere 1., Szeged, H-6720, Hungary.,Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, 35516, Egypt
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- Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Aradi vértanúk tere 1., Szeged, H-6720, Hungary
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- Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Aradi vértanúk tere 1., Szeged, H-6720, Hungary
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- Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Aradi vértanúk tere 1., Szeged, H-6720, Hungary
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