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The risk of sustained sexual transmission of Zika is underestimated

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Pathogens, September 2017
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Title
The risk of sustained sexual transmission of Zika is underestimated
Published in
PLoS Pathogens, September 2017
DOI 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006633
Pubmed ID
Authors

Antoine Allard, Benjamin M. Althouse, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Samuel V. Scarpino

Abstract

Pathogens often follow more than one transmission route during outbreaks-from needle sharing plus sexual transmission of HIV to small droplet aerosol plus fomite transmission of influenza. Thus, controlling an infectious disease outbreak often requires characterizing the risk associated with multiple mechanisms of transmission. For example, during the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, weighing the relative importance of funeral versus health care worker transmission was essential to stopping disease spread. As a result, strategic policy decisions regarding interventions must rely on accurately characterizing risks associated with multiple transmission routes. The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak challenges our conventional methodologies for translating case-counts into route-specific transmission risk. Critically, most approaches will fail to accurately estimate the risk of sustained sexual transmission of a pathogen that is primarily vectored by a mosquito-such as the risk of sustained sexual transmission of ZIKV. By computationally investigating a novel mathematical approach for multi-route pathogens, our results suggest that previous epidemic threshold estimates could under-estimate the risk of sustained sexual transmission by at least an order of magnitude. This result, coupled with emerging clinical, epidemiological, and experimental evidence for an increased risk of sexual transmission, would strongly support recent calls to classify ZIKV as a sexually transmitted infection.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 87 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 18%
Student > Master 13 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 16 18%
Unknown 20 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 22%
Immunology and Microbiology 7 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 6%
Social Sciences 5 6%
Other 22 25%
Unknown 24 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 118. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 November 2021.
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#357,164
of 25,477,125 outputs
Outputs from PLoS Pathogens
#247
of 9,487 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,512
of 325,934 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLoS Pathogens
#9
of 166 outputs
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