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SUBMITTER: Hubert M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6832565 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hubert Mathieu M Chiche Aurélie A Legros Vincent V Jeannin Patricia P Montange Thomas T Gessain Antoine A Ceccaldi Pierre-Emmanuel PE Vidy Aurore A
Viruses 20191015 10
Zika virus (ZIKV) belongs to the large category of arboviruses. Surprisingly, several human-to-human transmissions of ZIKV have been notified, either following sexual intercourse or from the mother to fetus during pregnancy. Importantly, high viral loads have been detected in the human breast milk of infected mothers, and the existence of breastfeeding as a new mode of mother-to-child transmission of ZIKV was recently hypothesized. However, the maternal origin of infectious particles in breast m ...[more]