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Texas Zika Researchers Studying Infected Primates To Help Prevent Birth Defects

December 12, 2017

Scientists at Texas BioMedical Research Institute in San Antonio are using a type of primate to help prevent birth defects caused by the Zika virus. Texas BioMed is using four marmosets as its animal model for Zika infection. Virologist Dr. Jean Patterson said Zika infection in marmosets is similar to that in humans.

“Like humans, they develop almost immediate Viremia — meaning they have virus in their blood — and, for the males, after the virus declines in blood it then goes into semen, saliva and blood,” she said. Read more. 

Written by Joey Palacios

Published December 11, 2017, by Texas Public Radio 


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