Antibiotic may block Zika virus infection of fetus

Monday, July 18, 2016 - 16:01 in Health & Medicine

UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley researchers have mapped out how the Zika virus infects the developing fetus, and have found an antibiotic that blocks these routes of infection, at least in human cell culture. The findings, published today in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, comes as the virus, spread by mosquitoes and linked […]

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