Lethality and pathogenesis of airborne infection with filoviruses in A129 α/β -/- interferon receptor-deficient mice

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-15

  Lever, Mark S ^a   Piercy, Timothy J ^a   Steward, Jackie A ^a   Eastaugh, Lin ^a   Smither, Sophie J ^a   Taylor, Christopher ^a   Salguero, Francisco J ^b   Phillpotts, Robert J ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AEROSOL; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTE D'IVOIRE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DISEASE COURSE; EBOLA VIRUS; FEMALE; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; MARBURG VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDAN; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS TITRATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; FILOVIRIDAE; FILOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE; MARBURGVIRUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTOR, INTERFERON ALPHA-BETA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 83755172969     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.036210-0     Document Type: Article

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