Understanding Zika virus pathogenesis: an interview with Catherine Spong

A recent outbreak of Zika virus has been linked to fetal abnormalities in pregnant women who have been infected. The scientific community is working toward understanding Zika virus pathogenesis to better manage affected women and children. In an interview with Dr. Catherine Spong, we discuss the aim...

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Autor principal: Spong, Catherine Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27268016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0628-0
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description A recent outbreak of Zika virus has been linked to fetal abnormalities in pregnant women who have been infected. The scientific community is working toward understanding Zika virus pathogenesis to better manage affected women and children. In an interview with Dr. Catherine Spong, we discuss the aims and challenges of a forthcoming longitudinal study of a cohort of pregnant women in areas of current active Zika virus transmission.
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spelling pubmed-48959562016-06-08 Understanding Zika virus pathogenesis: an interview with Catherine Spong Spong, Catherine Y. BMC Med Question and Answer A recent outbreak of Zika virus has been linked to fetal abnormalities in pregnant women who have been infected. The scientific community is working toward understanding Zika virus pathogenesis to better manage affected women and children. In an interview with Dr. Catherine Spong, we discuss the aims and challenges of a forthcoming longitudinal study of a cohort of pregnant women in areas of current active Zika virus transmission. BioMed Central 2016-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4895956/ /pubmed/27268016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0628-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27268016
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