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SUBMITTER: Lai H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2823901 | biostudies-other | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lai Huafang H Engle Michael M Fuchs Anja A Keller Thomas T Johnson Syd S Gorlatov Sergey S Diamond Michael S MS Chen Qiang Q
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100201 6
Over the past decade, West Nile virus (WNV) has spread to all 48 of the lower United States as well as to parts of Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America, with outbreaks of neuroinvasive disease occurring annually. At present, no therapeutic or vaccine is available for human use. Epidemics of WNV and other emerging infectious disease threats demand cost-efficient and scalable production technologies that can rapidly transfer effective therapeutics into the clinical setting. We have pre ...[more]