Morphological studies in a model for dengue-2 virus infection in mice

One of the main difficulties in studying dengue virus infection in humans and in developing a vaccine is the absence of a suitable animal model which develops the full spectrum of dengue fever, dengue haemorrhagic fever, and dengue shock syndrome. It is our proposal to present morphological aspects...

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Main Authors: Ortrud Monika Barth, Débora Ferreira Barreto, Marciano Viana Paes, Christina Maeda Takiya, Angela Teixeira Pinhão, Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2006-12-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762006000800014