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The potential of a protease activation mutant of a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus for a pandemic live vaccine.
Vaccine - 13 Feb 2008
Gabriel G, Garn H, Wegmann M, Renz H, Herwig A, Klenk H-D, Stech J
Abstract excerpt
The most effective countermeasure against a pandemic originating from a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) is immunoprophylaxis of the human population. We present here a new approach for the development of a pandemic HPAIV live vaccine. Using reverse genetics, we replaced the polybasic hemagglutinin cleavage site of an H7N7 HPAIV with an elastase motif. This mutant was strictly elastase-dependent,...
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