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Development of high-yield influenza A virus vaccine viruses.
Nature communications - 2 Sept 2015
Ping Jihui, Lopes Tiago J S, Nidom Chairul A, Ghedin Elodie, Macken Catherine A, Fitch Adam, Imai Masaki, Maher Eileen A, Neumann Gabriele, Kawaoka Yoshihiro
Abstract excerpt
Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent infection. Influenza vaccines propagated in cultured cells are approved for use in humans, but their yields are often suboptimal. Here, we screened A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (PR8) virus mutant libraries to develop vaccine backbones (defined here as the six viral RNA segments not encoding haemagglutinin and neuraminidase) that support high yield in cell...
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