Characterizing the pattern of anomalies in congenital Zika syndrome for pediatric clinicians

CA Moore, JE Staples, WB Dobyns, A Pessoa… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Zika virus infection can be prenatally passed from a pregnant woman to her
fetus. There is sufficient evidence to conclude that intrauterine Zika virus infection is a cause …

Zika virus infection in pregnancy, microcephaly, and maternal and fetal health: what we think, what we know, and what we think we know

MG Alvarado, DA Schwartz - Archives of pathology & …, 2017 - meridian.allenpress.com
Context.—The global epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection has emerged as an important
public health problem affecting pregnant women and their infants. Objectives.—To review …

A live-attenuated Zika virus vaccine candidate induces sterilizing immunity in mouse models

C Shan, AE Muruato, BTD Nunes, H Luo, X Xie… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection of pregnant women can cause a wide range of congenital
abnormalities, including microcephaly, in the infant, a condition now collectively known as …

A novel Zika virus mouse model reveals strain specific differences in virus pathogenesis and host inflammatory immune responses

S Tripathi, VRMT Balasubramaniam, JA Brown… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito borne flavivirus, which was a neglected tropical pathogen
until it emerged and spread across the Pacific Area and the Americas, causing large human …

Highly efficient maternal-fetal Zika virus transmission in pregnant rhesus macaques

SM Nguyen, KM Antony, DM Dudley, S Kohn… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Infection with Zika virus (ZIKV) is associated with human congenital fetal anomalies. To
model fetal outcomes in nonhuman primates, we administered Asian-lineage ZIKV …

Functional analysis of glycosylation of Zika virus envelope protein

CR Fontes-Garfias, C Shan, H Luo, AE Muruato… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection causes devastating congenital abnormities and Guillain-Barré
syndrome. The ZIKV envelope (E) protein is responsible for viral entry and represents a …

Zika in the Americas, year 2: What have we learned? What gaps remain? A report from the Global Virus Network

MT Aliota, L Bassit, SS Bradrick, B Cox… - Antiviral research, 2017 - Elsevier
In response to the outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in the Western Hemisphere and the
recognition of a causal association with fetal malformations, the Global Virus Network (GVN) …

[HTML][HTML] Testing for Zika virus infection in pregnancy: key concepts to deal with an emerging epidemic

C Eppes, M Rac, J Dunn, J Versalovic… - American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne (Aedes genus) arbovirus of the Flaviviridae family.
Following epidemics in Micronesia and French Polynesia during the past decade, more …

Protective efficacy of Zika vaccine in AG129 mouse model

K Sumathy, B Kulkarni, RK Gondu, SK Ponnuru… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes asymptomatic infection or
presents only mild symptoms in majority of those infected. However, vaccination for ZIKV is a …

Zika virus infection in pregnancy: maternal, fetal, and neonatal considerations

CD Zorrilla, I Garcia Garcia… - The Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
An infection with the Zika virus (ZIKV) is usually mild, with nonspecific symptoms and most
often asymptomatic. However, because of its causal relationship with severe congenital …