A Mouse Model of Zika Virus Sexual Transmission and Vaginal Viral Replication

Cell Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3091-3098

  Tang, William Weihao ^a   Young, Matthew Perry ^a   Mamidi, Anila ^a   Regla Nava, Jose Angel ^a   Kim, Kenneth ^a   Shresta, Sujan ^a  

^a LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

diestrus; genital; mouse model; semen; sexual; sperm; vagina; venereal; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VAGINITIS; VIREMIA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA VIRUS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VAGINA; VIROLOGY; ZIKA FEVER;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; REPRODUCTIVE TRACT INFECTIONS; VAGINA; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85006802636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.11.070     Document Type: Article

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