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Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers
Animal experiment; animal model; animal tissue; antibody titer; article; blood brain barrier; CD3+ T lymphocyte; cell infiltration; cerebellum; cerebrospinal fluid; cerebrospinal fluid cytology; controlled study; dog; female; fluorescent antibody technique; hippocampus; histopathology; hypothalamus; immunohistochemistry; inflammation; lethal dose; leukocyte count; mouse; nonhuman; protein blood level; rabies; Rabies virus; virus encephalitis
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Presence Of Virus Neutralizing Antibodies In Cerebral Spinal Fluid Correlates With Non-Lethal Rabies In Dogs., Clement W Gnanadurai, Ming Zhou, Wenqi He, Christina M Leyson, Chien-Tsun Huang, Gregory Salyards, Stephen B Harvey, Zhenhai Chen, Biao He, Yang Yang, D C Hooper, Berhnard Dietzchold, Zhen F Fu
Presence Of Virus Neutralizing Antibodies In Cerebral Spinal Fluid Correlates With Non-Lethal Rabies In Dogs., Clement W Gnanadurai, Ming Zhou, Wenqi He, Christina M Leyson, Chien-Tsun Huang, Gregory Salyards, Stephen B Harvey, Zhenhai Chen, Biao He, Yang Yang, D C Hooper, Berhnard Dietzchold, Zhen F Fu
Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers
BACKGROUND: Rabies is traditionally considered a uniformly fatal disease after onset of clinical manifestations. However, increasing evidence indicates that non-lethal infection as well as recovery from flaccid paralysis and encephalitis occurs in laboratory animals as well as humans.
METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Non-lethal rabies infection in dogs experimentally infected with wild type dog rabies virus (RABV, wt DRV-Mexico) correlates with the presence of high level of virus neutralizing antibodies (VNA) in the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) and mild immune cell accumulation in the central nervous system (CNS). By contrast, dogs that succumbed to rabies showed only little or no VNA in the …