Systemic viral spreading and defective host responses are associated with fatal Lassa fever in macaques

Baillet et al. use the cynomolgus monkey model to model Lassa virus and associated Lassa fever (LF). They provide a full characterisation of LF pathogenesis with the aim of assisting the development of early diagnostic tools.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicolas Baillet, Stéphanie Reynard, Emeline Perthame, Jimmy Hortion, Alexandra Journeaux, Mathieu Mateo, Xavier Carnec, Justine Schaeffer, Caroline Picard, Laura Barrot, Stéphane Barron, Audrey Vallve, Aurélie Duthey, Frédéric Jacquot, Cathy Boehringer, Grégory Jouvion, Natalia Pietrosemoli, Rachel Legendre, Marie-Agnès Dillies, Richard Allan, Catherine Legras-Lachuer, Caroline Carbonnelle, Hervé Raoul, Sylvain Baize
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01543-7