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Zika virus infection—do they also endanger male fertility?

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  1. Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Physiology, University of Turku, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Nafis A. Rahman & Ilpo Huhtaniemi

  2. Department of Reproduction and Gynecological Endocrinology, Medical University of Bialystok, 15276, Bialystok, Poland

    Nafis A. Rahman

  3. Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, W12 ONN, London, UK

    Ilpo Huhtaniemi

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Rahman, N.A., Huhtaniemi, I. Zika virus infection—do they also endanger male fertility?. Sci. China Life Sci. 60, 324–325 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-016-0414-4

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