The number of herpes simplex virus-infected neurons and the number of viral genome copies per neuron correlate with the latent viral load in ganglia

Virology

Volumn 372, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-63

  Hoshino, Yo ^a   Qin, Jing ^a   Follmann, Dean ^a   Cohen, Jeffrey I ^a   Straus, Stephen E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

HSV 2; Latent viral load; Number of HSV genome copies per infected cells; Number of HSV infected neurons; Poisson distribution; Poisson Poisson model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GANGLION; GENOME; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 2, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS LATENCY;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 2; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 38949090012     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.10.031     Document Type: Article

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