Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis Is Associated with an Ineffective Systemic Immune Response and Activated T Cell Infiltration into the CNS in an Immunocompetent Mouse Model

Rift Valley Fever Virus Encephalitis Is Associated with an Ineffective Systemic Immune Response and Activated T Cell Infiltration into the CNS in an Immunocompetent Mouse Model

Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne virus that causes severe disease in people and livestock throughout Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Human disease is usually self-limiting, but a small proportion of individuals develop fatal encephalitis. The role of the host immune response in d...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dodd, Kimberly A., McElroy, Anita K., Jones, Tara L., Zaki, Sherif R., Nichol, Stuart T., Spiropoulou, Christina F.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055548/

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055548/

Similar Items