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Rift Valley fever in kidney transplant recipient returning from Mali with viral RNA detected in semen up to four months from symptom onset, France, autumn 2015
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsFatiha Hanechehaneche.fatiha gmail.com
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Citation style for this article: . Rift Valley fever in kidney transplant recipient returning from Mali with viral RNA detected in semen up to four months from symptom onset, France, autumn 2015. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(18):pii=30222. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.18.30222 Received: 16 Apr 2016; Accepted: 04 May 2016
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Abstract
A 29-year-old kidney transplant recipient returning from Mali was diagnosed with Rift Valley fever (RVF) in France in autumn 2015. The patient was immunosuppressed due to his renal transplant. IgM and IgG specific to RVF virus (RVFV) were detected in cerebrospinal fluid and blood up to two months after symptom onset, whereas in urine, RVFV genomic RNA was detected by RT-PCR up to three months, and in semen up to four months post symptom onset.
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