A lethal disease model for New World hantaviruses using immunosuppressed Syrian hamsters

• Valentijn Vergote,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KU Leuven–University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Zoonotic Infectious Diseases unit, Leuven, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4436-3212

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• Lies Laenen,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KU Leuven–University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Zoonotic Infectious Diseases unit, Leuven, Belgium

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• Bert Vanmechelen,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KU Leuven–University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Zoonotic Infectious Diseases unit, Leuven, Belgium

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• Marc Van Ranst,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation KU Leuven–University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Zoonotic Infectious Diseases unit, Leuven, Belgium

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• Erik Verbeken,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KU Leuven–University of Leuven, Department of Imaging & Pathology, Translational Cell and Tissue Research, Leuven, Belgium

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• Jay W. Hooper,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Virology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, MD, United States

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• Piet Maes

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: piet.maes@kuleuven.be

  Affiliation KU Leuven–University of Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Zoonotic Infectious Diseases unit, Leuven, Belgium

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