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Journal of Clinical Virology

Authors:

Didier Mussoa, Claudine Roche, Tu-Xuan Nha, Emilie Robina, Anita Teissier, Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau

Abstract

Background: During the largest Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak ever reported that occurred from October 2013 to March 2014 in French Polynesia, we observed that several patients presenting the symptoms of acute phase Zika fever were tested negative in blood by ZIKV real-time PCR (RT-PCR).

Objectives: As we have previously detected ZIKV RNA in the saliva of a young child, we investigated the use of saliva as an alternative sample for routine ZIKV RNA detection.

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