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Identification of genetic determinants of a tick-borne flavivirus associated with host-specific adaptation and pathogenicity.
Virology - 25 Nov 2008
Mitzel Dana N, Best Sonja M, Masnick Max F, Porcella Stephen F, Wolfinbarger James B, Bloom Marshall E
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Tick-borne flaviviruses are maintained in nature in an enzootic cycle involving a tick vector and a vertebrate host. Thus, the virus replicates in two disparate hosts, each providing selective pressures that can influence virus replication and pathogenicity. To identify viral determinants associated with replication in the individual hosts, plaque purified Langat virus (TP21pp) was adapted to growth in mouse or...
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