The invention provides an establishment method and application of a
Zika virus infectious
animal model, and belongs to the technical field of
biology. According to the invention, ZIKV is inoculated to
Toll-like
receptor-deleted animals, such that the ZIKV challenging
animal model is obtained. After the animal is inoculated with ZIKV, obvious ZIKV load can be detected in blood, liver,
spleen,
reproductive organ and
brain tissue of the animal, moreover, the
spleen is obviously swollen, the
liver tissue has punctiform necrotic
lesion, the splenosome is obviously reduced, and the
mRNA level of
inflammation related indexes Ccl5, Cxcl1, Isg15 and Isg56 is obviously up-regulated, which indicates that the ZIKV challenge model disclosed by the invention is successfully constructed; the method can be used in related researches such as ZIKV infection mechanism,
vaccine research and development, anti-ZIKV
drug research and development and the like.