Impact of Zika virus for infertility specialists: current literature, guidelines, and resources.

ABSTRACT: In the past 2 years, Zika virus has emerged from obscurity onto the world stage-traversing and transcending clinical specialties, basic science disciplines, and public health efforts. The spread of Zika virus has serious implications for the specialty of reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Our patients, practices, and labs-worldwide and specifically in the USA-have been impacted by this teratogenic, sexually transmitted, largely asymptomatic virus. While the World Health Organization's Public Emergency of International Concern designation has lapsed as major epidemics have subsided and understanding of risks is in part clarified, the acute and long-term threat to pregnant patients is not over. The risk of wider spread in the USA is not insignificant, the subtler and long-ranging co

SUBMITTER: Dubaut JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5633575 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature