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Adaptation to cell culture induces functional differences in measles virus proteins.
Virology journal - 27 Oct 2008
Bankamp Bettina, Fontana Judith M, Bellini William J, Rota Paul A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Live, attenuated measles virus (MeV) vaccine strains were generated by adaptation to cell culture. The genetic basis for the attenuation of the vaccine strains is unknown. We previously reported that adaptation of a pathogenic, wild-type MeV to Vero cells or primary chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEFs) resulted in a loss of pathogenicity in rhesus macaques. The CEF-adapted virus (D-CEF) contained single...
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