Immunophenotypic Alterations in Target Tissues

Lassa Virus Infection in Experimentally Infected Marmosets: Liver Pathology and 1 Immunophenotypic Alterations in Target Tissues 2 3 Running head: Lassa Virus Infection in Marmosets 4 5 Ricardo Carrion, Jr., Kathleen Brasky, Keith Mansfield, Curtis Johnson, Monica 6 Gonzales, Anysha Ticer, Igor Lukashevich, Suzette Tardif, and Jean Patterson* 7 8 Department of Virology and Immunology and Southwest National Primate Research 9 Center, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas 78227, New 10 England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, 11 Massachusetts 01772, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Biotechnology 12 Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 13 14 *Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Virology and Immunology, 15 Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, P.O. Box 760549, San Antonio, TX 16 78245-0549. Phone: (210) 258-9431. Fax: (210) 670-3329. E-mail: [email protected] 17 †Current affiliation: Sam and Ann Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies, 18 University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229 19 20 Abstract word count: 203 21 Text word count (excluding references, table footnotes, and figure legends): 4,137 22 AC CE PT ED Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.02876-06 JVI Accepts, published online ahead of print on 4 April 2007