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West Nile Virus Infection Causes Endocytosis of a Specific Subset of Tight Junction Membrane Proteins
24 May 2012
Abstract excerpt
West Nile virus (WNV) is a blood-borne pathogen that causes systemic infections and serious neurological disease in human and animals. The most common route of infection is mosquito bites and therefore, the virus must cross a number of polarized cell layers to gain access to organ tissue and the central nervous system. Resistance to trans-cellular movement of macromolecules between epithelial and endothelial...
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