Article
A herpes simplex type 1 ICPO deletion mutant demonstrates diminished pathogenicity during acute ocular infection in different host animals.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 1 Apr 1990
Gordon Y J, Romanowski E, Balouris C, Araullo-Cruz T
Abstract excerpt
We compared a previously characterized herpes simplex type 1 alpha 0 deletion mutant, dlx3.1, which produced no functional ICP0, with its wild-type parental strain, KOS, during acute ocular infection of different host animals. Acute pathogenicity of the viral strains in NZ rabbits, Balb/c and A/J...
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Animals
- Chromosome Deletion
- Eye
- Female
- Keratitis, Dendritic
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Mutation
- Rabbits
- Simplexvirus
- Survival
- Trigeminal Ganglion
