Neutrophil and macrophage influx into the central nervous system are inflammatory components of lethal Rift Valley fever encephalitis in rats.
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) causes severe disease in livestock concurrent with zoonotic transmission to humans. A subset of people infected with RVFV develop encephalitis, and significant gaps remain in our knowledge of how RVFV causes pathology in the brain. We previously found that, in Lewis ra...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007833 |