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Repeated bottleneck transfers can lead to non-cytocidal forms of a cytopathic virus: implications for viral extinction.
Journal of molecular biology - 15 Feb 2008
Escarmís Cristina, Lázaro Ester, Arias Armando, Domingo Esteban
Abstract excerpt
Several biological subclones of a biological clone of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) have been subjected to many plaque-to-plaque (serial bottleneck) transfers in cell culture. At transfer 190 to 409, clones underwent a transition towards a non-cytolytic (NC) phenotype in which the virus was unable to produce plaques, representing at least a 140-fold reduction in specific infectivity relative to the parental...
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