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Modification of foot-and-mouth disease virus O1 Caseros after serial passages in the presence of antiviral polyclonal sera.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1992
Rojas E R, Carrillo E, Schiappacassi M, Campos R
Abstract excerpt
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) shows a remarkable antigenic variability and, like other RNA viruses, presents a high rate of mutation. It has been proposed that selection exerted by antibodies of the host could play a major role in the rapid evolution of FMDV. The present work reports the selection of FMDV antibody-resistant (Nr) populations after serial passages of a cloned FMDV O1 Caseros strain on...
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