Antiviral activity of quercetin-3-β-O-D-glucoside against Zika virus infection

• Published in: Virologica Sinica Vol. 32; no. 6; pp. 545 - 547
• Main Authors: Wong, Gary, He, Shihua, Siragam, Vinayakumar, Bi, Yuhai, Mbikay, Majambu, Chretien, Michel, Qiu, Xiangguo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.12.2017; KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd
• Subjects: Animals; Antiviral activity; Antiviral Agents - administration & dosage; Antiviral Agents - pharmacology; antiviral properties; Biochemistry; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; brain; Brain stem; Cell culture; Cell lines; Cercopithecus aethiops; Disease Models, Animal; Fetuses; humans; Letter; Medical Microbiology; Mice, Knockout; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Neural stem cells; Oncology; Quercetin; Quercetin - administration & dosage; Quercetin - analogs & derivatives; Quercetin - pharmacology; Survival Analysis; therapeutics; Tissue culture; Vero Cells; Viral Load; Viremia; Virology; Virus Replication - drug effects; Zika virus; Zika Virus - drug effects; Zika Virus - physiology; Zika Virus Infection - drug therapy
• ISSN: 1674-0769; 1995-820X; 1995-820X
• DOI: 10.1007/s12250-017-4057-9

Dear Editor, The 2015-2016 outbreak of Zika virus （ZIKV） fever, first reported in Brazil during early 2015 （Zanluca et al., 2015）, has infected millions of people and is a global public health concern. ZIKV infections are associated with fetal microcephaly, as well as neurological complications in h...