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INFECTIONS with most types of Coxsackie virus are fatal to newborn mice in normal conditions. This susceptibility decreases sharply with age and, when the mice are a few days old, the infection runs a subclinical course1. As yet no satisfactory explanation of this phenomenon has been offered.
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TEISNER, B., HAAHR, S. Poikilothermia and Susceptibility of Suckling Mice to Coxsackie B1 Virus. Nature 247, 568 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247568a0
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