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Evaluation of a protease activation mutant of Sendai virus as a potent live vaccine.
Veterinary microbiology - 1 Jan 1992
Maru M, Haraguchi M, Sato K, Hotta H, Homma M
Abstract excerpt
A protease activation mutant of Sendai virus, TR-5, was investigated as a candidate for a live vaccine. Vaccination with TR-5 which had been activated by chymotrypsin beforehand (active TR-5) elicited protective immunity against otherwise lethal challenge infection with wild-type Sendai virus in DBA/2, C3H and ICR strains of mice. Less of the active TR-5 was required to confer protection on mice compared with an...
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