Article
Attenuation and immunogenicity of host-range extended modified vaccinia virus Ankara recombinants.
Vaccine - 23 Sept 2013
Melamed Sharon, Wyatt Linda S, Kastenmayer Robin J, Moss Bernard
Abstract excerpt
Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) is being widely investigated as a safe smallpox vaccine and as an expression vector to produce vaccines against other infectious diseases and cancer. MVA was isolated following more than 500 passages in chick embryo fibroblasts and suffered several major deletions and numerous small mutations resulting in replication defects in human and most other mammalian cells as well as...
Topics
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Female
- Host Specificity
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred ICR
- Mutation
- Recombination, Genetic
- Smallpox Vaccine
- Vaccinia
- Vaccinia virus
- Virulence
- Virus Replication
