A Susceptible Mouse Model for Zika Virus Infection.

• Main Authors: Stuart D Dowall (Author), Victoria A Graham (Author), Emma Rayner (Author), Barry Atkinson (Author), Graham Hall (Author), Robert J Watson (Author), Andrew Bosworth (Author), Laura C Bonney (Author), Samantha Kitchen (Author), Roger Hewson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen which has recently spread beyond Africa and into Pacific and South American regions. Despite first being detected in 1947, very little information is known about the virus, and its spread has been associated with increases in Guillain-Barre syndrome and...