Moving Forward: Recent Developments for the Ferret Biomedical Research Model

ABSTRACT Since the initial report in 1911, the domestic ferret has become an invaluable biomedical research model. While widely recognized for its utility in influenza virus research, ferrets are used for a variety of infectious and noninfectious disease models due to the anatomical, metabolic, and...

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Main Authors: Randy A. Albrecht, Wen-Chun Liu, Andrea J. Sant, S. Mark Tompkins, Andrew Pekosz, Victoria Meliopoulos, Sean Cherry, Paul G. Thomas, Stacey Schultz-Cherry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-09-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01113-18