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Article: Influenza virus infection of neonatal rat brain described.
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- Science Letter
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- November 23, 2004
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2004 NOV 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists describe wild-type and attenuated influenza virus infection of the neonatal rat brain in a recent issue of the Journal of Neurovirology.
"Although influenza virus infection of humans has been associated with a wide spectrum of clinical neurological syndromes, the pathogenesis of influenza virus associated central nervous system (CNS) disease in humans remains controversial. To better study influenza virus neuropathogenesis, an animal model of influenza-associated CNS disease using human virus isolates without adaptation to an animal host was developed," investigators in the United States report.
"This ...