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SUBMITTER: Anaya JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4802632 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anaya Juan-Manuel JM Ramirez-Santana Carolina C Salgado-Castaneda Ignacio I Chang Christopher C Ansari Aftab A Gershwin M Eric ME
BMC medicine 20160321
An increasing number of severe neurological complications associated with Zika virus (ZIKV), chiefly Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and primary microcephaly, have led the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency. Molecular mimicry between glycolipids and surface molecules of infectious agents explain most of the cases of GBS preceded by infection, while a direct toxicity of ZIKV on neural cells has been raised as the main mechanism by which ZIKV induces microcephaly. Ganglio ...[more]