Article
Equine herpesvirus type 1 mutant defective in glycoprotein E gene as candidate vaccine strain.
The Journal of veterinary medical science - 1 Nov 2009
TSUJIMURA Koji, SHIOSE Tomoki, YAMANAKA Takashi, NEMOTO Manabu, KONDO Takashi, MATSUMURA Tomio
Abstract excerpt
An equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) mutant, DeltagE, defective in glycoprotein E (gE) was evaluated as a modified live virus (MLV) vaccine. Colostrum-deprived Thoroughbred foals inoculated intranasally (i.n.) or intramuscularly (i.m.) with DeltagE did not exhibit any clinical signs of respiratory disease except for a mild nasal discharge in 1 i.n. inoculated foal on Days 1 and 3 post-infection. In contrast, the...
Topics
- Administration, Intranasal
- Animals
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Herpesviridae Infections
- Herpesvirus 1, Equid
- Horse Diseases
- Horses
- Injections, Intramuscular
- Mutation
- Viral Envelope Proteins
- Viral Vaccines
