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In vitro selection of variants of herpes simplex virus type 1 which differ in cytopathic changes.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 1997
Padilla J, Yamada M, Takahashi Y, Tsukazaki T, Nakamura J, Yoshida M, Uno F, Arao Y, Nii S
Abstract excerpt
To analyze the mechanisms for in vitro emergence of the syncytial variants of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), several cell lines were infected with a mixture of equal amounts of two HSV-1 variants, one syncytial and the other non-syncytial, and changes in their relative abundance were monitored during passage. With a combination of two variants of the Miyama strain of HSV-1, the syncytial variant became...
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