Virulence and pathophysiology of the Congo Basin and West African strains of monkeypox virus in non-human primates

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2266-2271

  Saijo, Masayuki ^a   Ami, Yasushi ^b   Suzaki, Yuriko ^b   Nagata, Noriyo ^a   Iwata, Naoko ^a   Hasegawa, Hideaki ^a   Iizuka, Itoe ^a   Shiota, Tomoyuki ^a   Sakai, Kouji ^b   Ogata, Momoko ^a   Fukushi, Shuetsu ^a   Mizutani, Tetsuya ^a   Sata, Tetsutaro ^a   Kurata, Takeshi ^a   Kurane, Ichiro ^a   Morikawa, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Laboratory of Animal Experimentation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; FATALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIBERIA; MIXED INFECTION; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACACA; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; VERO CELL; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

MONKEYPOX VIRUS; POSIBACTERIA; PRIMATES;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CONGO; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; VERO CELLS; VIREMIA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 70349333848     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.010207-0     Document Type: Article

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