The emergence of Zika virus and its new clinical syndromes

TC Pierson, MS Diamond - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus that has emerged as a global health
threat because of its potential to generate explosive epidemics and ability to cause …

Chronic inflammatory placental disorders associated with recurrent adverse pregnancy outcome

EF Cornish, T McDonnell, DJ Williams - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chronic inflammatory placental disorders are a group of rare but devastating gestational
syndromes associated with adverse pregnancy outcome. This review focuses on three …

Does the human placenta express the canonical cell entry mediators for SARS-CoV-2?

R Pique-Regi, R Romero, AL Tarca, F Luca, Y Xu… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected more than 10 million …

The evolution of Zika virus from Asia to the Americas

ZY Liu, WF Shi, CF Qin - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) was once considered an obscure member of the large and diverse family of
mosquito-borne flaviviruses, and human infections with ZIKV were thought to be sporadic …

Dengue virus immunity increases Zika virus-induced damage during pregnancy

JA Brown, G Singh, JA Acklin, S Lee, JE Duehr… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) has recently been associated with birth defects and pregnancy loss after
maternal infection. Because dengue virus (DENV) and ZIKV co-circulate, understanding the …

Prenatal Zika virus infection has sex-specific effects on infant physical development and mother-infant social interactions

G Moadab, F Pittet, JL Bennett, CL Taylor… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
There is enormous variation in the extent to which fetal Zika virus (fZIKV) infection affects the
developing brain. Despite the neural consequences of fZIKV infection observed in people …

Perspectives on the technological aspects and biomedical applications of virus‐like particles/nanoparticles in reproductive biology: insights on the medicinal and …

V Chandrasekar, AV Singh… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing data on the infection indicate that maternal infections are severe. Under the
realms of vaccine development, virus‐like particles (VLP)/nanoparticles (NPs) hold the …

A combination of two human monoclonal antibodies prevents Zika virus escape mutations in non-human primates

JR Keeffe, KKA Van Rompay, PC Olsen, Q Wang… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) causes severe neurologic complications and fetal aberrations. Vaccine
development is hindered by potential safety concerns due to antibody cross-reactivity with …

Animal models of Zika virus infection during pregnancy

EA Caine, BW Jagger, MS Diamond - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged suddenly in the Americas in 2015 and was associated with a
widespread outbreak of microcephaly and other severe congenital abnormalities in infants …

Zika viruses of African and Asian lineages cause fetal harm in a mouse model of vertical transmission

AS Jaeger, RA Murrieta, LR Goren… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Congenital Zika virus (ZIKV) infection was first linked to birth defects during the American
outbreak in 2015/2016. It has been proposed that mutations unique to the Asian/American …