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Persistent infection and associated nucleotide changes of West Nile virus serially passaged in hamsters.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Dec 2008
Wu Xiaoyan, Lu Liang, Guzman Hilda, Tesh Robert B, Xiao Shu-Yuan
Abstract excerpt
Hamsters experimentally infected with the neuroinvasive West Nile virus (WNV) strain NY385-99 frequently develop persistent renal infection and viruria. Viruses recovered from the urine of such animals no longer cause neurological disease when inoculated into naïve hamsters. To examine if this phenotypic change is stable, and if additional nucleotide changes occur during further passages, a urine isolate from a...
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