Establishing a new animal model for hepadnaviral infection: Susceptibility of Chinese Marmota-species to woodchuck hepatitis virus infection

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 681-691

  Wang, Bao Ju ^a   Tian, Yong Jun ^a   Meng, Zhong Ji ^a   Jiang, Min ^b   Wei, Bo Qing ^c   Tao, Yuan Qing ^c   Fan, Wei ^c   Li, An Yi ^a   Bao, Jun Jie ^a   Li, Xin Yu ^a   Zhang, Zheng Mao ^a   Wang, Zhong Dong ^c   Wang, Hu ^c   Roggendorf, Michael ^d   Lu, Meng Ji ^d   Yang, Dong Liang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Qinghai Institute for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HEPADNAVIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MARMOTA BAIBACINA; MARMOTA BOBAK; MARMOTA HIMALAYANA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIURIDAE; SCREENING; SEROLOGY; SPECIES; VIRUS REPLICATION; WOODCHUCK HEPATITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS, WOODCHUCK; LIVER; MARMOTA; SERUM;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MARMOTA; MARMOTA BAIBACINA; MARMOTA BOBAK; MARMOTA HIMALAYANA; MARMOTA MONAX; WOODCHUCK HEPATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 79951779827     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.025023-0     Document Type: Article

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