Loss in lung volume and changes in the immune response demonstrate disease progression in African green monkeys infected by small-particle aerosol and intratracheal exposure to Nipah virus.

• Main Authors: Yu Cong (Author), Margaret R Lentz (Author), Abigail Lara (Author), Isis Alexander (Author), Christopher Bartos (Author), J Kyle Bohannon (Author), Dima Hammoud (Author), Louis Huzella (Author), Peter B Jahrling (Author), Krisztina Janosko (Author), Catherine Jett (Author), Erin Kollins (Author), Matthew Lackemeyer (Author), Daniel Mollura (Author), Dan Ragland (Author), Oscar Rojas (Author), Jeffrey Solomon (Author), Ziyue Xu (Author), Vincent Munster (Author), Michael R Holbrook (Author)
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• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Nipah virus (NiV) is a paramyxovirus (genus Henipavirus) that emerged in the late 1990s in Malaysia and has since been identified as the cause of sporadic outbreaks of severe febrile disease in Bangladesh and India. NiV infection is frequently associated with severe respiratory or neurological disea...