Frequent Zika Virus Sexual Transmission and Prolonged Viral RNA Shedding in an Immunodeficient Mouse Model

Cell Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1751-1760

  Duggal, Nisha K ^a   Ritter, Jana M ^a   Pestorius, Samuel E ^a   Zaki, Sherif R ^a   Davis, Brent S ^a   Chang, Gwong Jen J ^a   Bowen, Richard A ^b   Brault, Aaron C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

animal model; mouse model; pregnancy; semen; sexual transmission; vasectomy; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VASECTOMY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS SHEDDING; ZIKA VIRUS; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; SCID MOUSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPERM; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD; ZIKA FEVER;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, SCID; RNA, VIRAL; SEMEN; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85013158360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.01.056     Document Type: Article

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