Publications
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lassa virus infection in experimentally infected marmosets: liver pathology and immunophenotypic alterations in target tissues. | lassa virus causes thousands of deaths annually in western africa and is considered a potential biological weapon. in an attempt to develop a small nonhuman primate model of lassa fever, common marmosets were subcutaneously inoculated with lassa virus strain josiah. this inoculation resulted in a systemic disease with clinical and morphological features mirroring those in fatal human lassa infection: fever, weight loss, high viremia and viral rna load in tissues, elevated liver enzymes, and seve ... | 2007 | 17409137 |