Université de Fribourg

Interactions of human microglia cells with Japanese encephalitis virus

Lannes, Nils ; Neuhaus, Viviane ; Scolari, Brigitte ; Kharoubi-Hess, Solange ; Walch, Michael ; Summerfield, Artur ; Filgueira, Luis

In: Virology Journal, 2017, vol. 14, p. 8

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a neurotropic flavivirus causing mortality and morbidity in humans. Severe Japanese encephalitis cases display strong inflammatory responses in the central nervous system and an accumulation of viral particles in specific brain regions. Microglia cells are the unique brain-resident immune cell population with potent migratory functions and have been...