Saturday 23 August 2014

New Monkey Model of Severe MERS-CoV Disease

New monkey model of severe Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection has been established by NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases researchers. The same NIAID group in December 2012 developed the first animal model of MERS-CoV infection using rhesus macaques. That model has proven difficult to use for evaluating potential treatments because it mimics mild to moderate human disease, and the animals quickly recover ...

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