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Brain- and intestine-specific variants of reovirus serotype 3 strain dearing are selected during chronic infection of severe combined immunodeficient mice.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1995
Haller B L, Barkon M L, Li X Y, Hu W M, Wetzel J D, Dermody T S, Virgin H W
Abstract excerpt
Mutants of mammalian reoviruses, enteric double-stranded-RNA-containing viruses that spread systemically after primary replication in intestinal tissue, have been extensively studied as models of viral pathogenesis. While reovirus serotype 3 strain Dearing (T3D) causes acute encephalitis in newborn mice, adult severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice develop chronic infection with T3D, with some mice living...
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