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The dominant-negative inhibition of double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase PKR increases the efficacy of Rift Valley fever virus MP-12 vaccine.
Journal of virology - 1 Jul 2012
Lihoradova Olga, Kalveram Birte, Indran Sabarish V, Lokugamage Nandadeva, Juelich Terry L, Hill Terence E, Tseng Chien-Te K, Gong Bin, Fukushi Shuetsu, Morikawa Shigeru, Freiberg Alexander N, Ikegami Tetsuro
Abstract excerpt
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), belonging to the genus Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae, is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and causes a high rate of abortion in ruminants and hemorrhagic fever, encephalitis, or blindness in humans. MP-12 is the only RVFV strain excluded from the select-agent rule and handled at a biosafety level 2 (BSL2) laboratory. MP-12 encodes a functional major virulence factor, the NSs...
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