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Stability of RNA virus attenuation approaches.
Vaccine - 9 Mar 2011
Kenney Joan L, Volk Sara M, Pandya Jyotsna, Wang Eryu, Liang Xiaodong, Weaver Scott C
Abstract excerpt
The greatest risk from live-attenuated vaccines is reversion to virulence. Particular concerns arise for RNA viruses, which exhibit high mutation frequencies. We examined the stability of 3 attenuation strategies for the alphavirus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV): a traditional, point mutation-dependent attenuation approach exemplified by TC-83; a rationally designed, targeted-mutation approach...
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