The recent epidemic of Zika virus highlights the importance of establishing reverse genetic approaches to develop vaccines and/or therapeutic strategies. Here, we describe the protocol to rescue an infectious recombinant Zika virus from a full-length cDNA clone assembled in a bacterial artificial chromosome under the control of the human cytomegalovirus immediate-early promoter.
Ávila-Pérez, G., Park, J., Nogales, A., Almazán, F., Martínez-Sobrido, L. Rescue of Recombinant Zika Virus from a Bacterial Artificial Chromosome cDNA Clone. J. Vis. Exp. (148), e59537, doi:10.3791/59537 (2019).