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King, N.J.K., Davison, A., Getts, D., Lu, D.P., Getts, M., Yeung, A., Peterson, J. and Kesson, A.M. (2008) Enhanced Antigen Processing or Immune Evasion? West Nile Virus and the Induction of Immune Recognition Molecules. In: Diamond, M.S., Ed., West Nile Encephalitis Virus Infection: Viral Pathogenesis and the Host Immune Response, Springer-Verlag, New York, 309-339.

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• TITLE: Using a Collateral Damage Model to Explain Survival Data in West Nile Virus Infections

  AUTHORS: James K. Peterson, Alison M. Kesson, Nicholas J. C. King

  KEYWORDS: Auto Immune Responses, West Nile Virus, Host Survival Models, MHC-I Upregulation, IFN-γ Upregulation, Free Antigen Levels

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Microbiology, Vol.6 No.4, April 7, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Simulation code for a model of the adaptive immune response seen in flavivirus infections is used to explain the immunopathological consequences seen in West Nile Virus virus (WNV) infections. We use a model that specifically handles the differences in how the virus infects resting cells, the G0 state, versus dividing cells, the G1 state, which includes vastly increased MHC-I upregulation for resting cells over dividing cells. The simulation suggests how the infection progresses in a one host model and the results shed insight into the unusual survival curve data obtained for this infection: there is an increase in health even though viral load has increased.