Extended microbiological characterization of göttingen minipigs in the context of xenotransplantation: Detection and vertical transmission of hepatitis e virus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Morozov, Vladimir A ^a   Morozov, Alexey V ^b   Rotem, Avi ^c   Barkai, Uriel ^c   Bornstein, Stefan ^d   Denner, Joachim ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Beta O2 Technologies Ltd   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA; HEPATITIS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; AMPLICON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GILT (SWINE); GOTTINGEN MINIPIG; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS GENOTYPE 3; HEPATITIS E VIRUS GENOTYPE 4; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOW (SWINE); VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS DETECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MINIPIG; PATHOGENICITY; PIG; SWINE DISEASE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; SWINE, MINIATURE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84949033156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139893     Document Type: Article

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