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Temperature-sensitive parainfluenza type 1 vaccine virus directly accesses the central nervous system by infecting olfactory neurons.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Sept 1996
Mori I, Nakakuki K, Kimura Y
Abstract excerpt
Immunohistochemical investigation showed that intranasal inoculation of mice with a temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of parainfluenza type 1 vaccine virus resulted in infection of some olfactory neurons as well as respiratory epithelial cells. It also disclosed the presence of viral antigens in glomeruli of the olfactory bulb but not in the secondary neurons (mitral and tufted cells). Polymerase chain reaction...
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