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SUBMITTER: Miller LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5930900 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20180201 3
To evaluate potential immunocompetent small animal models of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, we inoculated Syrian golden hamsters (subcutaneously or intraperitoneally) and strain 13 guinea pigs (intraperitoneally) with Senegalese ZIKV strain ArD 41525 or Philippines ZIKV strain CPC-0740. We did not detect viremia in hamsters inoculated subcutaneously with either virus strain, although some hamsters developed virus neutralizing antibodies. However, we detected statistically significant higher viremi ...[more]