image: MRI images of infant monkey brains at 6 months of age. Infants previously infected with Zika virus exhibited larger ventricles (cavities that contain cerebrospinal fluid) in the corpus callosum and hippocampus (yellow arrows) compared to healthy controls. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 4 April, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Mavigner at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga., and colleagues was titled, "Postnatal Zika virus infection is associated with persistent abnormalities in brain structure, function, and behavior in infant macaques." view more
Credit: M. Mavigner et al., Science Translational Medicine (2018)