Zika virus: History, emergence, biology, and prospects for control

SC Weaver, F Costa, MA Garcia-Blanco, AI Ko… - Antiviral research, 2016 - Elsevier
Zika virus (ZIKV), a previously obscure flavivirus closely related to dengue, West Nile,
Japanese encephalitis and yellow fever viruses, has emerged explosively since 2007 to …

[HTML][HTML] A literature review of Zika virus

AR Plourde, EM Bloch - Emerging infectious diseases, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Zika virus is a mosquitoborne flavivirus that is the focus of an ongoing pandemic and public
health emergency. Previously limited to sporadic cases in Africa and Asia, the emergence of …

Placental pathology in COVID-19

ED Shanes, LB Mithal, S Otero, HA Azad… - American journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To describe histopathologic findings in the placentas of women with coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) during pregnancy. Methods Pregnant women with COVID-19 …

Zika virus and birth defects—reviewing the evidence for causality

SA Rasmussen, DJ Jamieson, MA Honein… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Zika Virus and Birth Defects — Reviewing the Evidence for Causality | New England Journal of
Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine homepage Advanced …

The Brazilian Zika virus strain causes birth defects in experimental models

FR Cugola, IR Fernandes, FB Russo, BC Freitas… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus belonging to the genus Flavivirus (family Flaviviridae) and
was first described in 1947 in Uganda following blood analyses of sentinel Rhesus …

A mouse model of Zika virus pathogenesis

HM Lazear, J Govero, AM Smith, DJ Platt… - Cell host & …, 2016 - cell.com
The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic and unexpected clinical outcomes, including
Guillain-Barré syndrome and birth defects, has brought an urgent need for animal models …

Zika virus infection during pregnancy in mice causes placental damage and fetal demise

JJ Miner, B Cao, J Govero, AM Smith, E Fernandez… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in pregnant women causes intrauterine growth restriction,
spontaneous abortion, and microcephaly. Here, we describe two mouse models of placental …

The 3.8 Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika virus

D Sirohi, Z Chen, L Sun, T Klose, TC Pierson… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The recent rapid spread of Zika virus and its unexpected linkage to birth defects and an
autoimmune neurological syndrome have generated worldwide concern. Zika virus is a …

Association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil, January to May, 2016: preliminary report of a case-control study

TVB De Araújo, LC Rodrigues… - The lancet infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background The microcephaly epidemic, which started in Brazil in 2015, was declared a
Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO in 2016. We report the …

Zika virus infection as a cause of congenital brain abnormalities and Guillain–Barré syndrome: systematic review

F Krauer, M Riesen, L Reveiz, OT Oladapo… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) stated in March 2016 that there was
scientific consensus that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was a cause of the neurological …