The domestic ferret (mustela putorius furo) as a lethal infection model for 3 species of ebolavirus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 565-569

  Cross, Robert W ^a,b   Mire, Chad E ^a,b   Borisevich, Viktoriya ^a,b   Geisbert, Joan B ^a,b   Fenton, Karla A ^a,b   Geisbert, Thomas W ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Animal model; Coagulopathy; Ebola virus; Ferret; Filovirus; Pathogenesis; Permeability; Therapeutics; Vaccines; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; FIBRINOGEN; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASOPHILIA; BUNDIBUGYO EBOLAVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DOMESTIC FERRET; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MONOCYTOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPHILIA; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SUDAN EBOLAVIRUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; WILD TYPE; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS; ANIMAL; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; FERRETS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA;

EID: 84988962295     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw209     Document Type: Article

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