Development of an acute and highly pathogenic nonhuman primate model of Nipah virus infection.

Development of an acute and highly pathogenic nonhuman primate model of Nipah virus infection.

Nipah virus (NiV) is an enigmatic emerging pathogen that causes severe and often fatal neurologic and/or respiratory disease in both animals and humans. Amongst people, case fatality rates range between 40 and 75 percent and there are no vaccines or treatments approved for human use. Guinea pigs, ha...

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Main Authors: Thomas W Geisbert, Kathleen M Daddario-DiCaprio, Andrew C Hickey, Mark A Smith, Yee-Peng Chan, Lin-Fa Wang, Joseph J Mattapallil, Joan B Geisbert, Katharine N Bossart, Christopher C Broder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2872660?pdf=render

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