Rabbit as a Novel Animal Model for Hepatitis E Virus Infection and Vaccine Evaluation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Cheng, Xianfeng ^a   Wang, Song ^a   Dai, Xing ^a   Shi, Chengbo ^b   Wen, Yufeng ^c   Zhu, Ming ^d   Zhan, Shenwei ^d   Meng, Jihong ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Changchun Institute of Biological Products Co Ltd   (China)

^c WANNAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Ma Anshan   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS E VACCINE; PLACEBO;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEROCONVERSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIREMIA; VIRUS EXCRETION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS STRAIN;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENOME; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PLACEBOS; RABBITS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84871263825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051616     Document Type: Article

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