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A vaccine candidate for eastern equine encephalitis virus based on IRES-mediated attenuation.
Vaccine - 8 Feb 2012
Pandya Jyotsna, Gorchakov Rodion, Wang Eryu, Leal Grace, Weaver Scott C
Abstract excerpt
To develop an effective vaccine against eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), we engineered a recombinant EEE virus (EEEV) that was attenuated and capable of replicating only in vertebrate cells, an important safety feature for live vaccines against mosquito-borne viruses. The subgenomic promoter was inactivated with 13 synonymous mutations and expression of the EEEV structural proteins was placed under the control...
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