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FANTASTIC VOYAGE

THE ZIKA VIRURESEARCH

REBECCA STAPLEY

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What is the Zika Virus

The Zika virus (ZIKV) is a virus

transmitted by infected mosquitos. It was

first discovered in 1947, in Uganda, first

isolated from a rhesus monkey.

It was first isolated in humans in Nigeria

in 1968. It mainly is found in a multitude

of countries in Africa and some parts ofAsia.

The Zika virus has recently caused an

outbreak in Brazil, 2015.

It is closely related to other flaviviruses

such as yellow fever, the dengue and

Japanese encephalitis viruses.

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ZIKA VIRUS IS A POSITIVE SINGLE STRANDED RNA MOLECULE

ZIKA VIRUS ENTERS HUMAN BODY THROUGH INFECTED MOSQUITO

ZIKA CELL ATTATCHES TO THE HOST CELL MEMBRANE VIA THE PROTLAYER ON THE HOST CELL

VIRUS MEMBRANE FUSES WITH THE MEMBRANE OF THE HOST CELL

RNA GENOME RELEASED INTO HOST CELL CYTOPLASM

RNA STRAND HIJACKS CELLS AMINO ACID MAKING PROCESS, AND THCELL STARTS TO PRODUCE AMINO ACIDS SPECIFIC FOR THE VIRUS IN

VIRUS AMINO ACIDS (PROTIENS) START TO FORM VIRUS CELLS WITHOGENOME

ORIGINAL RNA STRAND IS TRANSCRIBED USING NEGATIVE RNA POLYREATING ADDITIONAL RNA STRANDS FOR THE VIRUS CELLS

HOST CELL BEGINS TO FILL WITH VIRUS CELLS, VIRUS CELLS MULTIPL

HOST CELL BECOMES SO FULL IT RUPTURES, EXCRETING NEW VIRUS

INTRACELLULAR SPACE WHERE THEY GO ON TO INFECT NEW CELLS REPEAT PROCESS

Reproductive Cycle of Z

Virus

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Microbewiki.kenyon.edu, (2016). Zika virus - MicrobeWikiAvailable at:https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Zika_virus 23 Feb. 2016].