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Influenza A Virus Studies in a Mouse Model of Infection
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Influenza virus infection in guinea pigs raised as livestock, Ecuador
Victor H Leyva-Grado1, Samira Mubareka, Florian Krammer
1Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029-6574, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|June 20, 2012
Abstract:
To determine whether guinea pigs are infected with influenza virus in nature, we conducted a serologic study in domestic guinea pigs in Ecuador. Detection of antibodies against influenza A and B raises the question about the role of guinea pigs in the ecology and epidemiology of influenza virus in the region.
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