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Neurological suppression of diaphragm electromyographs in hamsters infected with West Nile virus
John D Morrey1, Venkatraman Siddharthan, Hong Wang
1Institute for Antiviral Research, Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84341, USA. john.morrey@usu.edu
Journal of Neurovirology
|July 17, 2010
Abstract:
To address the hypothesis that respiratory distress associated with West Nile virus (WNV) is neurologically caused, electromyographs (EMGs) were measured longitudinally from the diaphragms of alert hamsters infected subcutaneously (s.c.) with WNV. The EMG activity in WNV-infected hamsters was consistently and significantly (P

