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SUBMITTER: Abrams RPM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5722777 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abrams Rachel P M RPM Solis Jamie J Nath Avindra A
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20171001 4
Zika virus has spread rapidly in the Americas and has caused devastation of human populations affected in these regions. The virus causes teratogenic effects involving the nervous system, and in adults and children can cause a neuropathy similar to Guillain-Barré syndrome, an anterior myelitis, or, rarely, an encephalitis. While major efforts have been undertaken to control mosquito populations that spread the virus and to develop a vaccine, drug development that directly targets the virus in an ...[more]