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Susceptibility of different leukocyte cell types to Vaccinia virus infection
22 Nov 2004
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Vaccinia virus, the prototype member of the family Poxviridae, was used extensively in the past as the Smallpox vaccine, and is currently considered as a candidate vector for new recombinant vaccines. Vaccinia virus has a wide host range, and is known to infect cultures of a variety of cell lines of mammalian origin. However, little is known about the virus tropism in human leukocyte populations. We...
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