Congenital viral infections of the brain: Lessons learned from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in the neonatal rat

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1541-1550

  Bonthius, Daniel J ^a   Perlman, Stanley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CHORIORETINITIS; CONGENITAL INFECTION; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MICROCEPHALY; MITOSIS; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERIVENTRICULAR INFECTION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PORENCEPHALIC CYST; RAT; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

ANIMALIA; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; PREGNANCY; RATS;

EID: 37349045988     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0030149     Document Type: Review

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