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Axonal-transsynaptic spread as the basic pathogenetic mechanism in B virus infection of the nervous system. |
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| Authors: | G Gosztonyi D Falke H Ludwig |
| Institution: | Institut für Neuropathologie, Freie Universit?t Berlin, F.R.G. |
| Abstract: | An experimental study on the pathogenesis of B virus infection in the mouse has documented that the agent spreads in an axonal-transsynaptic manner in the nervous system. The characteristics of the spread of B virus are similar to those of other members of the herpes virus group. |
| Keywords: | transsynaptic virus spread axonal virus spread herpes viruses Rhesus monkeys (macaques) viral pathogenesis |