Mice Lacking Functional STAT1 Are Highly Susceptible to Lethal Infection with Lassa Virus
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- 1 October 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 87 (19) , 10908-10911
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01433-13
Abstract
Lassa fever (LF) is a potentially lethal human disease that is caused by the arenavirus Lassa virus (LASV). Annually, around 300,000 infections with up to 10,000 deaths occur in regions of Lassa fever endemicity in West Africa. Here we demonstrate that mice lacking a functional STAT1 pathway are highly susceptible to infection with LASV and develop lethal disease with pathology similar to that reported in humans.Keywords
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