Tissue tropism and target cells of NSs-deleted rift valley fever virus in live immunodeficient mice.

• Main Authors: Céline Gommet (Author), Agnès Billecocq (Author), Grégory Jouvion (Author), Milena Hasan (Author), Tânia Zaverucha do Valle (Author), Laurent Guillemot (Author), Charlène Blanchet (Author), Nico van Rooijen (Author), Xavier Montagutelli (Author), Michèle Bouloy (Author), Jean-Jacques Panthier (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes disease in livestock and humans. It can be transmitted by mosquitoes, inhalation or physical contact with the body fluids of infected animals. Severe clinical cases are characterized by acute hepatitis with hemorrhage, meningoencephalitis and/or reti...