Infection of Type I Interferon Receptor-Deficient Mice with Various Old World Arenaviruses: A Model for Studying Virulence and Host Species Barriers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Rieger, Toni ^a,b   Merkler, Doron ^c,d   Günther, Stephan ^a,b  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INTERFERON RECEPTOR;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARENAVIRUS INFECTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN LEVEL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KIDNEY; LASSA FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LIVER LEVEL; LUNG; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN DISEASE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T CELL DEPLETION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARENAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ARENAVIRUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTOR, INTERFERON ALPHA-BETA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84882795620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072290     Document Type: Article

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