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Lack of effect of murine norovirus infection on a mouse model of bacteria-induced colon cancer.
Comparative medicine - 1 Jun 2011
Lencioni Karen C, Drivdahl Rolf, Seamons Audrey, Treuting Piper M, Brabb Thea, Maggio-Price Lillian
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Murine norovirus (MNV) is endemic in mouse research facilities in the United States and Europe, with a prevalence as high as 58% to 64%. Because of MNV's orofecal route of infection, clinically silent persistent infections in some mouse strains, and proclivity for macrophage and dendritic cells, its presence in mouse colonies has potential to alter phenotypes in experimental mouse models, particularly those...
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