What is it about?

This article explains the immune response during an acute viral infection, and how this immune response might favor a congenital zika infection.

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Why is it important?

To explore new possible targets for treatment in congenital zika syndrome.

Perspectives

After the writing of these article I was able to reflect on the fact that new strategies for treatment are required in a number of chronic infections, these new strategies would need to target proteins from immune response required to fight intracellular pathogens, which have been clearly not enough to destroy such pathogens, and sometimes they even contribute either to the dissemination of the disease, or to hamper the immune response itself.

María Zavala
Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara

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This page is a summary of: Congenital Zika syndrome: Pitfalls in the placental barrier, Reviews in Medical Virology, May 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1985.
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