Zika and microcephaly: Causation, correlation, or coincidence?

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 167-168

  Tetro, Jason A ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; MICROCEPHALY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; CAUSALITY; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL;

ANIMALS; CAUSALITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICROCEPHALY; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84960184022     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2015.12.010     Document Type: Editorial

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