Shortening of Zika virus CD-loop reduces neurovirulence while preserving antigenicity

• Kenneth H. Dinnon III ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth H. Dinnon III, Emily N. Gallichotte

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8942-1551

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• Emily N. Gallichotte ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kenneth H. Dinnon III, Emily N. Gallichotte

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ethan J. Fritch,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Vineet D. Menachery,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ralph S. Baric

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rbaric@email.unc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6827-8701

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