Immune Evasion Strategies of Ranaviruses and Innate Immune Responses to These Emerging Pathogens

Ranaviruses (RV, <em>Iridoviridae</em>) are large double-stranded DNA viruses that infect fish, amphibians and reptiles. For ecological and commercial reasons, considerable attention has been drawn to the increasing prevalence of ranaviral infections of wild populations a...

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Published in:	Viruses
Main Authors:	Leon Grayfer, Francisco De Jesús Andino, Guangchun Chen, Gregory V. Chinchar, Jacques Robert
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2012-06-01
Subjects:	Iridovirus ranavirus FV3 frog virus 3 innate immunity macrophage anti-viral immune-evasion cytokines inflammation
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/4/7/1075