Infection of Type I Interferon Receptor-Deficient Mice with Various Old World Arenaviruses: A Model for Studying Virulence and Host Species Barriers

Lassa virus causes hemorrhagic Lassa fever in humans, while the related Old World arenaviruses Mopeia, Morogoro, and Mobala are supposedly apathogenic to humans and cause only inapparent infection in non-human primates. Here, we studied whether the virulence of Old World arenaviruses in humans and n...

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Main Authors: Rieger, Toni, Merkler, Doron, Günther, Stephan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750052/