ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION AT MID-GESTATION RESULTS IN FETAL CEREBRAL CORTICAL INJURY AND FETAL DEATH IN THE OLIVE BABOON.
Sunam Gurung, Nicole Reuter, Alisha Preno, Jamie P. Dubaut, Hugh C. G. Nadeau, Kimberly Hyatt, Krista Singleton, Ashley Martin, William Tony Parks, James F. Papin, Dean A. Myers
This study infects olive baboons with Zika virus during mid-gestation and observes fetal cerebral cortical injury and fetal death, providing a new non-human primate model for studying Congenital Zika Syndrome.
PLoS Pathogens · Jan 18, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience