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Zika's Negative Effects, As Seen in Human Newborns, Persist in Adults, Mouse Study Shows (2 of 4)

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Zika's Negative Effects, As Seen in Human Newborns, Persist in Adults, Mouse Study Shows (2 of 4)

image: Infection with Zika virus in infant mice caused severe alterations such as cell death (white arrows) in several regions in the brain (bottom row) compared to control animals (top row). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 6 June, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by I. Nem de Oliveira Souza at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and colleagues was titled, "Acute and chronic neurological consequences of early-life Zika virus infection in mice." view more 

Credit: Nem de Oliveira Souza <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine /i>(2018)


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