What happens in a mosquito's brain when it's infected with dengue? Almost nothing! 🦟🧠 We show DENV actively replicates in the brain, yet triggers virtually no transcriptional response. a striking case of neural tolerance ⬇️
New preprint by Umberto Palatini #Vosshalllab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Billions of people each year are at risk from infection by dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya viruses, which are transmitted by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Mosquitoes themselves are infe...