The continued threat of emerging flaviviruses

TC Pierson, MS Diamond - Nature microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Flaviviruses are vector-borne RNA viruses that can emerge unexpectedly in human
populations and cause a spectrum of potentially severe diseases including hepatitis …

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 …

Evasion of type I interferon by SARS-CoV-2

H Xia, Z Cao, X Xie, X Zhang, JYC Chen, H Wang… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) replication and host
immune response determine coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but studies evaluating …

Viral innate immune evasion and the pathogenesis of emerging RNA virus infections

T Nelemans, M Kikkert - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Positive-sense single-stranded RNA (+ ssRNA) viruses comprise many (re-) emerging
human pathogens that pose a public health problem. Our innate immune system and, in …

Pathogenesis of Zika virus infection

MI Giraldo, M Gonzalez-Orozco… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging virus from the Flaviviridae family that is transmitted to
humans by mosquito vectors and represents an important health problem. Infections in …

Recent African strains of Zika virus display higher transmissibility and fetal pathogenicity than Asian strains

F Aubry, S Jacobs, M Darmuzey, S Lequime… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The global emergence of Zika virus (ZIKV) revealed the unprecedented ability for a mosquito-
borne virus to cause congenital birth defects. A puzzling aspect of ZIKV emergence is that all …

Zika virus elicits inflammation to evade antiviral response by cleaving cGAS via NS 1‐caspase‐1 axis

Y Zheng, Q Liu, Y Wu, L Ma, Z Zhang, T Liu, S Jin… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Viral infection triggers host innate immune responses, which primarily include the activation
of type I interferon (IFN) signaling and inflammasomes. Here, we report that Zika virus (ZIKV) …

Antiviral strategies targeting host factors and mechanisms obliging+ ssRNA viral pathogens

S Mahajan, S Choudhary, P Kumar, S Tomar - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, periodic recurrence of viral infections, and the
emergence of challenging variants has created an urgent need of alternative therapeutic …

Species-specific disruption of STING-dependent antiviral cellular defenses by the Zika virus NS2B3 protease

Q Ding, JM Gaska, F Douam, L Wei… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The limited host tropism of numerous viruses causing disease in humans remains
incompletely understood. One example is Zika virus (ZIKV), an RNA virus that has …

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 …