Article
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes for 2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthetase and RNase L inpatients hospitalized with West Nile virus infection.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Nov 2005
Yakub Imtiaz, Lillibridge Kristy M, Moran Ana, Gonzalez Omar Y, Belmont John, Gibbs Richard A, Tweardy David J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Infection with the flavivirus West Nile virus (WNV) is a growing problem across the United States, where there is a case-fatality rate of 15%-29% in individuals >70 years old and no consistently effective treatment. Susceptibility to WNV disease in inbred strains of mice was mapped to a nonsense mutation in the gene encoding the 1b isoform of 2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthetase (OAS), a member of the...
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