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Immune response in the absence of neurovirulence in mice infected with m protein mutant vesicular stomatitis virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2008
Ahmed Maryam, Marino Tracie R, Puckett Shelby, Kock Nancy D, Lyles Douglas S
Abstract excerpt
Matrix (M) protein mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), such as rM51R-M virus, are less virulent than wild-type (wt) VSV strains due to their inability to suppress innate immunity. Studies presented here show that when inoculated intranasally into mice, rM51R-M virus was cleared from nasal mucosa by day 2 postinfection and was attenuated for spread to the central nervous system, in contrast to wt VSV,...
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