Zika virus can directly infect and damage the auditory and vestibular components of the embryonic chicken inner ear.
Ankita ThawaniNabilah H SammudinHannah S ReygaertsAlexis N WozniakVidhya MunnamalaiRichard J KuhnDonna M FeketePublished in: Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2020)
This article presents evidence of direct ZIKV infection of developing inner ear epithelium and shows previously unknown inner ear dysmorphogenesis phenotypes.