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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Comp Immunol. 2014 Apr 6;46(1):84–95. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2014.03.025

Table 1.

The advantages of using zebrafish to model human viral infections

Research Areas Tools/Techniques Insights Example References
Virology Fluorescent human viral
pathogens		 In vivo infection kinetics, cell
tropism, and viral burden		 Ding 2011; Palha
2013; K. A. Gabor
and C. H. Kim,
personal
communication
Immunology Transgenic lines Phagocyte behavior,
spatiotemporal induction of
antiviral signaling		 This review; Palha
2013
Morpholino knockdown Gene products regulating
infection		 Palha 2013
Chemical treatment Druggable signaling
pathways regulating infection		 Ding 2011; Palha
2013; K. A. Gabor
and C. H. Kim,
personal
communication