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Sequence diversity of dengue virus type 2 in brain and thymus of infected interferon receptor ko mice: implications for dengue virulence.
Virology journal - 30 Nov 2016
Dhole Priya, Nakayama Emi E, Saito Akatsuki, Limkittikul Kriengsak, Phanthanawiboon Supranee, Shioda Tatsuo, Kurosu Takeshi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We previously reported that a clinical isolate of dengue virus (DENV) is capable of causing acute-phase systemic infection in mice harboring knockouts of the genes encoding type-I and -II interferon IFN receptors (IFN-α/β/γR KO mice); in contrast, other virulent DENV isolates exhibited slow disease progression in this mice, yielding lethal infection around 20 days post-infection (p.i.). In the present...
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