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Novel attenuated Chikungunya vaccine candidates elicit protective immunity in C57BL/6 mice.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2014
Hallengärd David, Kakoulidou Maria, Lulla Aleksei, Kümmerer Beate M, Johansson Daniel X, Mutso Margit, Lulla Valeria, Fazakerley John K, Roques Pierre, Le Grand Roger, Merits Andres, Liljeström Peter
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a reemerging mosquito-borne alphavirus that has caused severe epidemics in Africa and Asia and occasionally in Europe. As of today, there is no licensed vaccine available to prevent CHIKV infection. Here we describe the development and evaluation of novel CHIKV vaccine candidates that were attenuated by deleting a large part of the gene encoding nsP3 or the entire gene...
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