Viremia associated with fatal outcomes in ferrets infected with avian H5N1 influenza virus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Xue ^a   Zhao, Jiangqin ^a   Tang, Shixing ^a   Ye, Zhiping ^b   Hewlett, Indira ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FATALITY; FERRET; ILEUM; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; LUNG; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE GROWTH; TURBINATE; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; AVIAN INFLUENZA; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POULTRY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MUSTELA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

ANIMALS; FERRETS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MALE; MORBIDITY; POULTRY; VIRAL LOAD; VIREMIA;

EID: 77957871111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012099     Document Type: Article

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