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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 16(11) December 2022

Peripheral nerve injury caused by JEV

In the past decades, JEV has been found to cause encephalitis, but in recent years, it was found that the virus can also cause peripheral nerve injury. In the image we can see the sciatic nerve of mice infected with JEV showed demyelinating pathological changes. Wang et al. (2022)

Image Credit: Xiaoli Wang and Zhenhai Wang, Neurology Center, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China

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Peripheral nerve injury caused by JEV

In the past decades, JEV has been found to cause encephalitis, but in recent years, it was found that the virus can also cause peripheral nerve injury. In the image we can see the sciatic nerve of mice infected with JEV showed demyelinating pathological changes. Wang et al. (2022)

Image Credit: Xiaoli Wang and Zhenhai Wang, Neurology Center, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China

https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v16.i11.g001