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Evaluation of a live attenuated recombinant virus RAV 9395 as a herpes simplex virus type 2 vaccine in guinea pigs.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 May 1998
Spector F C, Kern E R, Palmer J, Kaiwar R, Cha T A, Brown P, Spaete R R
Abstract excerpt
Recombinant virus RAV 9395 was constructed by deleting both copies of the gamma(1)34.5 gene, and the UL55 and UL56 open reading frames from herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) strain G. The potential use of RAV 9395 as an HSV-2 vaccine was investigated by evaluating the ability of RAV 9395 to protect guinea pigs from severe disease by HSV-2(G) challenge. RAV 9395 administered intramuscularly reduced both lesion...
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