Properties in culture and persistence in cotton rats of the Rickettsia prowazekii vaccine strain E and its mutants.

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Properties in culture and persistence in cotton rats of the Rickettsia prowazekii vaccine strain E and its mutants.

Acta virologica - 1 Apr 1990

Ignatovich V F, Penkina G A, Balaeva N M

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Cultural properties and the capacity for persistence were studied in spontaneous erythromycin-resistant (E errSM), in induced erythromycin-resistant (E errI) mutants and in a virulent revertant (E Vir) of the vaccine strain E, as compared with parent vaccine strain E and standard virulent strain...

Topics

Animals
Cells, Cultured
Chick Embryo
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Male
Mutation
Rats
Rickettsia prowazekii
Virulence
Virus Replication

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