Prior exposure to uninfected mosquitoes enhances mortality in naturally-transmitted West Nile virus infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Schneider, Bradley S ^a,b   McGee, Charles E ^a   Jordan, Jeffrey M ^a   Stevenson, Heather L ^a   Soong, Lynn ^a   Higgs, Stephen ^a  

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

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INOCULATION; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOGAVIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; AEDES; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES; MUS; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 41749120606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001171     Document Type: Article

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