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Test for Zica more than once during pregnancy: Study
Publicado em 02 novembro 2017
Women should be tested for the Zika virus more than once during pregnancy as the pathogen can be intermittently present in the urine for up to seven months, researchers suggested.
The study showed that the test could again be positive for the Zika virus even after the viral load had disappeared in previous tests.
The virus can be detected in a patient's urine for as long as seven months.
"These results suggest the virus continues replicating during pregnancy, in the foetus or the placenta, [...]