JBRA Assist. Reprod. 2019;23(2):178
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
doi: 10.5935/1518-0557.20190022

Zika virus during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation

Beuy Joob¹, Viroj Wiwanitkit²

¹Sanitation 1 Medical Academic Center, Bangkok Thailand
²Honorary professor, dr DY Patil University, Pune, India

Received January 16, 2019
Accepted February 20, 2019

Corresponding author:
Beuy Joob
Sanitation 1 Medical Academic Center
Bangkok Thailand
E-mail: beuyjoob@hotmail.com

CONFLICT OF INTEREST
None

Dear Editor, we read the publication on “Case report of Zika virus during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation: results from follicular fluid, cumulus cells and oocytes” with a great interest. Filho et al. (2019) noted that “This is the first report in the literature analysing ZIKV in the follicular fluid, cumulus cells, and oocytes.” Indeed, the identification of the virus in follicular fluid has been mentioned for a long time (Washington et al., 2016; Taitson et al., 2017). In animal model, the existence of the virus in oocytes is already reported (Broughton et al., 2017). Therefore, the report by Filho et al. (2019) should not be the first report.

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