Mixed vaginal infections of Balb/c mice with low virulent herpes simplex type 1 strains result in restoration of virulence properties: Vaginitis/vulvitis and neuroinvasiveness

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 217-222

  Lingen, M ^a   Hengerer, F ^a   Falke, D ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Herpes simplex virus; Neurovirulence; Recombination; Vaginal infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030403517     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050033     Document Type: Article

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