Fatal sindbis virus infection of neonatal mice in the absence of encephalitis

Virology

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-83

  Trgovcich, Joanne ^a   Aronson, Judith F ^a,b   Johnston, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; FATALITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINDBIS VIRUS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALIA; SINDBIS VIRUS;

EID: 0030273570     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0508     Document Type: Article

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