The ferret as a model organism to study influenza A virus infection

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 575-579

  Belser, Jessica A ^a   Katz, Jacqueline M ^a   Tumpey, Terrence M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; SIALIC ACID;

ABNORMAL SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; AEROSOL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CYTOKINE STORM; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FERRET; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETHARGY; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOSE SECRETION; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FERRETS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CAVIA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MAMMALIA; MUSTELA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 80052284394     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.007823     Document Type: Review

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