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Guinea pig-adapted foot-and-mouth disease virus with altered receptor recognition can productively infect a natural host.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2007
Núñez José I, Molina Nicolas, Baranowski Eric, Domingo Esteban, Clark Stuart, Burman Alison, Berryman Stephen, Jackson Terry, Sobrino Francisco
Abstract excerpt
We report that adaptation to infect the guinea pig did not modify the capacity of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) to kill suckling mice and to cause an acute and transmissible disease in the pig, an important natural host for this pathogen. Adaptive amino acid replacements (I(248)-->T in 2C,...
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