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Humanized mice show clinical signs of dengue fever according to infecting virus genotype.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2009
Mota Javier, Rico-Hesse Rebeca
Abstract excerpt
We demonstrated that the infection of humanized NOD-scid IL2r gamma(null) mice with different strains (representing the four genotypes) of dengue virus serotype 2 (DEN-2) can induce the development of human-like disease, including fever, viremia, erythema, and thrombocytopenia. Newborn mice were irradiated and received transplants by intrahepatic inoculation of human cord blood-derived hematopoietic progenitor...
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