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- Title
Fetal demise and failed antibody therapy during Zika virus infection of pregnant macaques.
- Authors
Magnani, Diogo M.; Rogers, Thomas F.; Maness, Nicholas J.; Grubaugh, Nathan D.; Beutler, Nathan; Bailey, Varian K.; Gonzalez-Nieto, Lucas; Gutman, Martin J.; Pedreño-Lopez, Núria; Kwal, Jaclyn M.; Ricciardi, Michael J.; Myers, Tereance A.; Julander, Justin G.; Bohm, Rudolf P.; Gilbert, Margaret H.; Schiro, Faith; Aye, Pyone P.; Blair, Robert V.; Martins, Mauricio A.; Falkenstein, Kathrine P.
- Abstract
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection of pregnant women is associated with pathologic complications of fetal development. Here, we infect pregnant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) with a minimally passaged ZIKV isolate from Rio de Janeiro, where a high rate of fetal development complications was observed. The infection of pregnant macaques with this virus results in maternal viremia, virus crossing into the amniotic fluid (AF), and in utero fetal deaths. We also treated three additional ZIKV-infected pregnant macaques with a cocktail of ZIKVneutralizing human monoclonal antibodies (nmAbs) at peak viremia. While the nmAbs can be effective in clearing the virus from the maternal sera of treated monkeys, it is not sufficient to clear ZIKV from AF. Our report suggests that ZIKV from Brazil causes fetal demise in nonhuman primates (NHPs) without additional mutations or confounding co-factors. Treatment with a neutralizing anti-ZIKV nmAb cocktail is insufficient to fully stop vertical transmission.
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-018-04056-4