A Full-Length Infectious cDNA Clone of Zika Virus from the 2015 Epidemic in Brazil as a Genetic Platform for Studies of Virus-Host Interactions and Vaccine Development

An arthropod-borne virus, Zika virus (ZIKV), has recently emerged as a major human pathogen. Associated with complications during perinatal development and Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults, ZIKV raises new challenges for understanding the molecular determinants of flavivirus pathogenesis. This und...

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Main Authors: Konstantin A. Tsetsarkin, Heather Kenney, Rubing Chen, Guangping Liu, Hasmik Manukyan, Stephen S. Whitehead, Majid Laassri, Konstantin Chumakov, Alexander G. Pletnev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-08-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/4/e01114-16