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Fitness selection of hyperfusogenic measles virus F proteins associated with neuropathogenic phenotypes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 May 2021
Ikegame Satoshi, Hashiguchi Takao, Hung Chuan-Tien, Dobrindt Kristina, Brennand Kristen J, Takeda Makoto, Lee Benhur
Abstract excerpt
Measles virus (MeV) is resurgent and caused >200,000 deaths in 2019. MeV infection can establish a chronic latent infection of the brain that can recrudesce months to years after recovery from the primary infection. Recrudescent MeV leads to fatal subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) or measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) as the virus spreads across multiple brain regions. Most clinical isolates of...
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