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Paolo Antonio Grossi1, Elena Percivalle2, Giulia Campanini2
1Department of Surgical and Morphological Sciences of Clinical Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
The New Microbiologica
|November 8, 2017
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We describe two cases of Zika virus infection involving an Italian patient returning from the Dominican Republic and his wife, who remained in Italy and had not travelled to Zika virus endemic areas in the previous months. The infection was transmitted through unprotected sexual intercourse after the man's return to Italy.
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