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Attenuation of tick-borne encephalitis virus using large-scale random codon re-encoding.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Mar 2015
de Fabritus Lauriane, Nougairède Antoine, Aubry Fabien, Gould Ernest A, de Lamballerie Xavier
Abstract excerpt
Large-scale codon re-encoding (i.e. introduction of a large number of synonymous mutations) is a novel method of generating attenuated viruses. Here, it was applied to the pathogenic flavivirus, tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) which causes febrile illness and encephalitis in humans in forested regions of Europe and Asia. Using an infectious clone of the Oshima 5-10 strain ("wild-type virus"), a cassette of...
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