Zika virus infects pericytes in the choroid plexus and enters the central nervous system through the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier

• Jihye Kim,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Brian Alejandro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9711-8950

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• Michal Hetman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Eyas M. Hattab,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3660-6261

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• Joshua Joiner,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Horst Schroten,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

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• Hiroshi Ishikawa,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Regenerative Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Dong-Hoon Chung

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dhchun01@louisville.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Center for Predictive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2626-172X

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