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SUBMITTER: Coffey LL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010452 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180620 1
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection of pregnant women can cause fetal microcephaly and other neurologic defects. We describe the development of a non-human primate model to better understand fetal pathogenesis. To reliably induce fetal infection at defined times, four pregnant rhesus macaques are inoculated intravenously and intraamniotically with ZIKV at gestational day (GD) 41, 50, 64, or 90, corresponding to first and second trimester of gestation. The GD41-inoculated animal, experiencing fetal death ...[more]