image: Zika infection during pregnancy can lead to birth defects such as microcephaly, and a new study shows it can cause other complications in infant mice such as seizures and motor deficits that persist into adulthood. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 6 June, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by I. Nem de Oliveira Souza at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and colleagues was titled, "Acute and chronic neurological consequences of early-life Zika virus infection in mice." view more
Credit: Image by Fernanda Barros-Aragão, based on Nem de Oliveira Souza<i> et al., Sci Transl Med</i>, 2018