Teaching a new mouse old tricks: Humanized mice as an infection model for Variola virus

• Christina L. Hutson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christina L. Hutson, Ashley V. Kondas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zuu6@cdc.gov

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7998-9728

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• Ashley V. Kondas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christina L. Hutson, Ashley V. Kondas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0949-0379

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• Jana M. Ritter,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4768-162X

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• Zachary Reed,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4174-1767

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• Sharon Dietz Ostergaard,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Comparative Medicine Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Clint N. Morgan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8646-8920

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• Nadia Gallardo-Romero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Cassandra Tansey,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Comparative Medicine Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Matthew R. Mauldin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3807-2339

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• Johanna S. Salzer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5580-8072

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• Christine M. Hughes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0177-2454

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• Cynthia S. Goldsmith,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4054-3419

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• Darin Carroll,

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

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4451-5482

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• Victoria A. Olson

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

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7729-7680

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