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Attenuated West Nile viruses bearing 3'SL and envelope gene substitution mutations.
Vaccine - 5 Nov 2008
Yu Li, Robert Putnak J, Pletnev Alexander G, Markoff Lewis
Abstract excerpt
Four viable West Nile (WN) 3'SL-mutant viruses were evaluated for neuroinvasiveness and neurovirulence in mice. All mutants were highly attenuated for neuroinvasiveness. However, only one of these four (WNmutE virus) was significantly attenuated for neurovirulence. To attenuate WNmutE virus further, we introduced five substitution mutations into the envelope (env) gene segment in wild-type (wt) WN and WNmutE...
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