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Studies on arboviruses--infection of undernourished mice by cocal virus
1Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil.
Experimental Pathology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Normal and undernourished mice inoculated orally and intraperitoneally with cocal virus show panencephalitis and acute poliomyelitis, which is more accentuated in cases of malnutrition. Speculations are made regarding viral penetration and progression in the nervous system.