Zika virus productively infects primary human placenta-specific macrophages

JCI Insight

Volumn 1, Issue 13, 2016, Pages

  Jurado, Kellie Ann ^a   Simoni, Michael K ^a   Tang, Zhonghua ^a   Uraki, Ryuta ^a   Hwang, Jesse ^a   Householder, Sarah ^a   Wu, Mingjie ^a   Lindenbach, Brett D ^a   Abrahams, Vikki M ^a   Guller, Seth ^a   Fikrig, Erol ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 85136186067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23793708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.88461     Document Type: Article

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