Avirulent mutants of rabies virus and their use as live vaccine.

doi:10.1016/0966-842x(93)90010-o

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Avirulent mutants of rabies virus and their use as live vaccine.

Trends in microbiology - 1 Nov 1993

Flamand A, Coulon P, Lafay F, Tuffereau C

Abstract excerpt

Oral vaccination of foxes against rabies began in Switzerland some 20 years ago and was later extended to several European countries. The vaccine strains, which were derivatives of the SAD strain of rabies, retain a non-negligible pathogenicity for rodents and nontarget species. Antigenic mutants...

Topics

Animals
Animals, Wild
Europe
Glycoproteins
Mutation
Rabies Vaccines
Rabies virus
Vaccination
Vaccines, Attenuated
Virulence

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