Respiratory insufficiency correlated strongly with mortality of rodents infected with West Nile virus.

West Nile virus (WNV) disease can be fatal for high-risk patients. Since WNV or its antigens have been identified in multiple anatomical locations of the central nervous system of persons or rodent models, one cannot know where to investigate the actual mechanism of mortality without careful studies...

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Main Authors: John D Morrey, Venkatraman Siddharthan, Hong Wang, Jeffery O Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3375279?pdf=render