{"id":6707,"date":"2020-05-08T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:52:23","slug":"clinical-characteristics-and-results-of-semen-tests-among-men-with-coronavirus-disease-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/08\/clinical-characteristics-and-results-of-semen-tests-among-men-with-coronavirus-disease-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Characteristics and Results of Semen Tests Among Men\u00a0With\u00a0Coronavirus Disease 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Li et al. tested semen samples from 38 patients with COVID-19 and detected SARS-CoV-2 from 6 patients (15.8%), including 4 of 15 patients (26.7%) who were at the acute stage of infection and 2 of 23 patients (8.7%) who were recovering.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Future studies are needed to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">determine<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">if SARS-CoV-2 can be sexually transmitted<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">whether\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">abstinence or condom use\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">should<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">be considered as preventive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">measures<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for these patients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Li et al. (May 7, 2020). Clinical Characteristics and Results of Semen Tests Among Men\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">With<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0Coronavirus Disease 2019. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.8292\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.8292<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li et al. tested semen samples from 38 patients with COVID-19 and detected SARS-CoV-2 from 6 patients (15.8%), including 4 of 15 patients (26.7%) who were at the acute stage of infection and 2 of 23 patients (8.7%) who were recovering.\u00a0Future studies are needed to\u00a0determine\u00a0if SARS-CoV-2 can be sexually transmitted\u00a0and\u00a0whether\u00a0abstinence or condom use\u00a0should\u00a0be considered as&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/08\/clinical-characteristics-and-results-of-semen-tests-among-men-with-coronavirus-disease-2019\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6708,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}