Rift valley Fever virus encephalitis is associated with an ineffective systemic immune response and activated T cell infiltration into the CNS in an immunocompetent mouse model.

• Hoofdauteurs: Kimberly A Dodd (Auteur), Anita K McElroy (Auteur), Tara L Jones (Auteur), Sherif R Zaki (Auteur), Stuart T Nichol (Auteur), Christina F Spiropoulou (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes outbreaks of severe disease in livestock and humans throughout Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. In people, RVFV generally causes a self-limiting febrile illness but in a subset of individuals, it progresses to more serious disease. One manifestation is a delaye...