Japanese encephalitis virus persists in the human reproductive epithelium and porcine reproductive tissues.

• Main Authors: Subash Chapagain (Author), Prince Pal Singh (Author), Khanh Le (Author), David Safronetz (Author), Heidi Wood (Author), Uladzimir Karniychuk (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is the emerging and geographically expanding flavivirus and the major causative agent of encephalitis in humans in Asia. There are risks of JEV introduction into the Americas given a large population of amplifying hosts-pigs and wild boars, and insect vectors-Culex...