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Zika virus can directly infect and damage the auditory and vestibular components of the embryonic chicken inner ear.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists - 1 Jul 2020
Thawani Ankita, Sammudin Nabilah H, Reygaerts Hannah S, Wozniak Alexis N, Munnamalai Vidhya, Kuhn Richard J, Fekete Donna M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sensorineural hearing loss is an understudied consequence of congenital Zika syndrome, and balance disorders are essentially unreported to date. Also lacking is information about the susceptibility and the pathogenesis of the developing inner ear following Zika virus (ZIKV) exposure. To address this, ZIKV was delivered directly into the otic cup/otocyst of chicken embryos and infection of inner ear...
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