Simian betaretrovirus infection in a colony of cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis)

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-53

  Fujiomto, Koji ^a,b   Takano, Jun Ichiro ^a,b   Narita, Toyoko ^a   Hanari, Koji ^a   Shimozawa, Nobuhiro ^b   Sankai, Tadashi ^b   Yosida, Takashi ^b   Terao, Keiji ^b   Kurata, Takeshi ^a   Yasutomi, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a The Corporation for Production and Research of Laboratory Primates   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MACACA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SIMIAN BETARETROVIRUS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIREMIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BETARETROVIRUS; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PREGNANCY; RNA, VIRAL; VIREMIA;

EID: 77749239878     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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