The rapid diagnosis of pathogens is crucial in the early stages of treatment of diseases
where the choice of the correct drug can be critical. Although conventional cell culture-based …

Zika virus was discovered∼ 70 years ago in Uganda and maintained a low profile as a
human disease agent in Africa and Asia. Only recently has it caused explosive outbreaks in …

Importance Recent studies have reported an increase in the number of fetuses and
neonates with microcephaly whose mothers were infected with the Zika virus (ZIKV) during …

CD8+ T cells may play a dual role in protection against and pathogenesis of flaviviruses,
including Zika virus (ZIKV). We evaluated the CD8+ T cell response in ZIKV-infected …

Since the early 1990s, nanotechnology has led to new horizons in nanomedicine, which
encompasses all spheres of science including chemistry, material science, biology, and …

Organisms are constantly exposed to microbial pathogens in their environments. When a
pathogen meets its host, a series of intricate intracellular interactions shape the outcome of …

A major concern associated with ZIKV infection is the increased incidence of microcephaly
with frequent calcifications in infants born from infected mothers. To date, postmortem …

We developed a dynamic forecasting model for Zika virus (ZIKV), based on real-time online
search data from Google Trends (GTs). It was designed to provide Zika virus disease (ZVD) …

Arthropod-borne flaviviruses are human pathogens of global medical importance, against
which no effective small molecule-based antiviral therapy has currently been reported …

The emergence of Zika virus in the Americas has followed a pattern that is familiar from
earlier epidemics of other viruses, where a new disease is introduced into a human …