Identifying Early Target Cells of Nipah Virus Infection in Syrian Hamsters.

• Main Authors: Laura Baseler (Author), Dana P Scott (Author), Greg Saturday (Author), Eva Horne (Author), Rebecca Rosenke (Author), Tina Thomas (Author), Kimberly Meade-White (Author), Elaine Haddock (Author), Heinz Feldmann (Author), Emmie de Wit (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Nipah virus causes respiratory and neurologic disease with case fatality rates up to 100% in individual outbreaks. End stage lesions have been described in the respiratory and nervous systems, vasculature and often lymphoid organs in fatal human cases; however, the initial target organs o...