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Modeling subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in a transgenic mouse system: uncoding pathogenesis of disease and illuminating components of immune control.
Current topics in microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2009
Oldstone M B A
Abstract excerpt
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that afflicts eight to 20 individuals per one million of those who become infected with measles virus (MV). The six cardinal elements of SSPE are: (1) progressive fatal CNS disease developing several years after MV infection begins; (2) replication of MV in neurons; (3) defective nonreplicating MV...
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