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A Japanese encephalitis virus vaccine candidate strain is attenuated by decreasing its interferon antagonistic ability.
Vaccine - 11 May 2009
Liang Jian-Jong, Liao Ching-Len, Liao Jia-Teh, Lee Yi-Ling, Lin Yi-Ling
Abstract excerpt
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes acute encephalitis with high mortality in humans. To understand the virus-host interactions that influence JEV virulence, we determined the lethality of a neurovirulent (RP-9) and an attenuated (RP-2ms) variant of JEV in several immunodeficient mice strains. The attenuated phenotype of RP-2ms was completely lost in Stat-1-deficient mice,...
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