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Competition and complementation between thymidine kinase-negative and wild-type herpes simplex virus during co-infection of mouse trigeminal ganglia.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Dec 2006
Chen Shih-Heng, Lin Yu-Wen, Griffiths Anthony, Huang Wen-Yen, Chen Shun-Hua
Abstract excerpt
Laboratory strains of herpes simplex virus lacking thymidine kinase (TK) cannot replicate acutely to detectable levels in mouse trigeminal ganglia and do not reactivate from latency. However, many pathogenic clinical isolates that are resistant to the antiviral drug acyclovir are heterogeneous populations of TK-negative (TK(-)) and TK-positive (TK(+)) viruses. To recapitulate this in vivo, mice were infected with...
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