Construction of an infectious clone of Zika virus stably expressing an EGFP marker in a eukaryotic expression system

Abstract Background Zika virus is becoming one of the most widely transmitted arboviruses in the world. Development of antiviral inhibitor and vaccine requires an experimental system that allows rapid monitoring of the virus infection. This is achievable with a reverse genetic system. In this study,...

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Main Authors: Jing Gao, Jiayi Chen, Weizhi Lu, Jintai Cai, Linjuan Shi, Wei Zhao, Bao Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:Virology Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-021-01622-z