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Benign human enterovirus becomes virulent in selenium‐deficient mice
1 Jun 1994
Abstract excerpt
Coxsackieviruses have been implicated as possible co-factors in the etiology of the selenium (Se)-responsive cardiomyopathy known as Keshan disease. Here we report that a cloned and sequenced amyocarditic coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3/0), which causes no pathology in the hearts of Se-adequate mice, induces extensive cardiac pathology in Se-deficient mice. CVB3/0 recovered from the hearts of Se-deficient mice inoculated...
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