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  • adjective medicine Capable of causing disease to the nervous system

Etymologies

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neuro- +‎ virulent

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Examples

  • As a consequence, the vaccine recipient excretes neurovirulent polioviruses.

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  • MacLennan C, Dunn G, Huissoon AP, Kumararatne DS, Martín J, et al. (2004) Failure to clear persistent vaccine-derived neurovirulent poliovirus infection in an immunodeficient man.

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  • Pollard SR, Dunn G, Cammack N, Minor PD, Almond JW (1989) Nucleotide sequence of a neurovirulent variant of the type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine.

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  • MacLennan C, Dunn G, Huissoon AP, Kumararatne DS, Martín J, et al. (2004) Failure to clear persistent vaccine-derived neurovirulent poliovirus infection in an immunodeficient man.

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  • Mice immunized with vGK5 are protected from a lethal respiratory challenge with VACV-WR Finally, to determine whether vGK5 infected mice were protected from a lethal challenge with the neurovirulent VACV-WR, mice that were immunized with 10 4.5 and 106 PFU of vGK5 intranasally 1 month earlier were challenged with 10 6

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  • While previous studies defined the attenuated VACV as significantly less pathogenic than the mouse adapted neurovirulent VACV-WR, the accompanying immune responses were not fully assessed

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  • Dewitt JB, Mankowski JL, Tarwater PM, Clements JE, et al. (2006) Progressive selection for neurovirulent genotypes in the brain of SIV-infected macaques.

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  • Macaca nemestrina) are inoculated simultaneously with a cloned neurovirulent virus,

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