Article
Peripheral replication and latency reactivation kinetics of the non-neurovirulent herpes simplex virus type 1 variant 1716.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Apr 1992
Robertson L M, MacLean A R, Brown S M
Abstract excerpt
The terminal portion of the herpes simplex virus (HSV) genome long repeat region has been shown to contain a neurovirulence gene. Both HSV-1 and HSV-2 mutants deleted in this gene fail to cause central nervous system (CNS) disease in mice. The HSV-1 strain 17 variant 1716, which has a 759 bp deletion encompassing the gene, grows normally in tissue culture but fails to grow following intracerebral inoculation of...
Topics
- Animals
- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Genetic Variation
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Nerve Tissue
- Simplexvirus
- Virulence
- Virus Activation
- Virus Replication
