Jenna R Rosinski, Lauren E Raasch, Patrick Barros Tiburcio, Meghan E Breitbach, Phoenix M Shepherd, Keisuke Yamamoto, Elaina Razo, Nicholas P Krabbe, Mason I Bliss, Alexander D Richardson, Morgan A Einwalter, Andrea M Weiler, Emily L Sneed, Kerri B Fuchs, Xiankun Zeng, Kevin K Noguchi, Terry K Morgan, Alexandra J Alberts, Kathleen M Antony, Sabrina Kabakov, Karla K Ausderau, Ellie K Bohm, Julia C Pritchard, Rachel V Spanton, James N Ver Hoove, Charlene B Y Kim, T Michael Nork, Alex W Katz, Carol A Rasmussen, Amy Hartman, Andres Mejia, Puja Basu, Heather A Simmons, Jens C Eickhoff, Thomas C Friedrich, Matthew T Aliota, Emma L Mohr, Dawn M Dudley, David H O'Connor, Christina M Newman
In the 2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) pandemic, a previously unrecognized risk of birth defects surfaced in babies whose mothers were infected with Asian-lineage ZIKV during pregnancy. Less is known about the impacts of gestational African-lineage ZIKV infections. Given high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) burdens in regions where African-lineage ZIKV circulates, we evaluated whether pregnant rhesus macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) have a higher risk of African-lineage ZIKV-associated birth defects...
March 28, 2023: PLoS Pathogens