AXL from the TYRO3, AXL, and MERTK (TAM) family of receptor tyrosine kinases was recently found to support ZIKV infection of human glial cells (Meertens et al., 2017), neural stem cells (Nowakowski et al., 2016; Onorati et al., 2016), skin fibroblasts (Hamel et al., 2015), and fetal endothelial cells (Richard et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene NTRK1 and Zika virus infectious disease.