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Herpes simplex virus virion host shutoff attenuates establishment of the antiviral state.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2008
Pasieka Tracy Jo, Lu Betty, Crosby Seth D, Wylie Kristine M, Morrison Lynda A, Alexander Diane E, Menachery Vineet D, Leib David A
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Herpes simplex virus mutants lacking the vhs protein are severely attenuated in animal models of pathogenesis and exhibit reduced growth in primary cell culture. As a result of these properties, viruses with vhs deleted have been proposed as live-attenuated vaccines. Despite these findings and their implications for vaccines, the mechanisms by which vhs promotes infection in cell culture and in vivo are not...
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