Article
Genetically engineered, live attenuated vaccines for Venezuelan equine encephalitis: testing in animal models.
Vaccine - 8 Sept 2003
Pratt William D, Davis Nancy L, Johnston Robert E, Smith Jonathan F
Abstract excerpt
The central objective of this research was to test molecularly defined, live attenuated Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) vaccine candidates that were produced through precise genetic manipulation of rationally selected viral nucleotide sequences. Molecular clones of vaccine candidates were constructed by inserting either three independently attenuating mutations or a PE2 cleavage-signal mutation with a...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cricetinae
- DNA, Complementary
- Encephalitis Virus, Venezuelan Equine
- Encephalomyelitis, Venezuelan Equine
- Female
- Macaca fascicularis
- Mesocricetus
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mutation
- Protein Engineering
- Vaccines, Attenuated
- Viral Vaccines
