United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1425 Porter St., Virology Division, Viral Therapeutics Branch, 903Q, Fort Detrick, MD 21702-5011, USA.
J Virol. 2011 May;85(10):4898-909. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02525-10. Epub 2011 Mar 9.
Variola, the causative agent of smallpox, and the related monkeypox virus are both select agents that, if purposefully released, would cause public panic and social disruption. For this reason research continues in the areas of animal model and therapeutic development. Orthopoxviruses show a widely varying degree of host specificity, making development of accurate animal models difficult. In this paper, we demonstrate a novel respiratory infection technique that resulted in "classic" orthopox disease in nonhuman primates and takes the field of research one step closer to a better animal model.
天花,即引起天花的病原体,以及相关的猴痘病毒,都是选择剂,如果被故意释放,将引起公众恐慌和社会混乱。出于这个原因,研究仍在动物模型和治疗方法的开发领域继续进行。正痘病毒在宿主特异性方面表现出广泛的差异,这使得开发准确的动物模型变得困难。在本文中,我们展示了一种新的呼吸道感染技术,该技术导致非人类灵长类动物出现“典型”的正痘疾病,使研究领域更接近更好的动物模型。