Sexual transmission causes a marked increase in the incidence of Zika in women in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Flávio Codeço Coelho, Betina Durovni, Valeria Saraceni, Cristina Lemos, Claudia Torres Codeço, Sabrina Camargo, Luiz Max Carvalho, Leonardo Bastos, Denise Arduini, Daniel Villela, Margaret Armstrong
The paper documents a significant increase in Zika incidence in women compared to men in Rio de Janeiro, attributing it to sexual transmission rather than gender bias in healthcare seeking.
bioRxiv · May 26, 2016Epidemiology