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Pathological consequences of systemic measles virus infection.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Jan 2015
Ludlow Martin, McQuaid Stephen, Milner Dan, de Swart Rik L, Duprex W Paul
Abstract excerpt
The identification of poliovirus receptor-like 4 (PVRL4) as the second natural receptor for measles virus (MV) has closed a major gap in our understanding of measles pathogenesis, and explains how this predominantly lymphotropic virus breaks through epithelial barriers to transmit to a susceptible host. Advances in the development of wild-type, recombinant MVs which express fluorescent proteins making infected...
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