Vertical Transmission of Junin Virus in Experimentally Infected AdultCalomys musculinus
作者:
Alfredo D. Vitullo,
Maria Susana Merani,
期刊:
Intervirology
(Karger Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 31,
issue 6
页码: 339-344
ISSN:0300-5526
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1159/000150170
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Junin virus;Vertical transmission;Argentine hemorrhagic fever;Calomys musculinus
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
The response to infection with Junin virus, wild strain Cba An 9446, and the antenatal and postnatal transmission of the pathogen in its natural host, Calomys musculinus, were studied. Intranasal infection in adult animals (90–120 days) did not produce mortality or illness during the 150-day period of observation. From day 21 to 150 after infection, 50% of the animals showed viral persistence with shedding of virus in both urine and saliva. The remaining half became seropositive, and no infectious virus was recovered from them. Although the virus did not infect fetuses during gestation, 50% of weaned pups nursed by viremic mothers were infected. Neither persistence nor immunologic response altered the reproductive pattern of the animals. The absence of reproductive failure in the infected host and the efficiency of postnatal transfer of Junin virus indicate that vertical transmission could contribute to the viral maintenance over tim
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