Characterization of the Mouse Neuroinvasiveness of Selected European Strains of West Nile Virus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Lim, Stephanie M ^a   Koraka, Penelope ^a   van Boheemen, Sander ^a   Roose, Jouke M ^a   Jaarsma, Dick ^a   van de Vijver, David A M C ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a   Martina, Byron E E ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUNGARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; ITALY; LD 50; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; EUROPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VERO CELLS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84884239754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074575     Document Type: Article

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