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The C12 mutant of MHV-A59 is very weakly demyelinating and has five amino acid substitutions restricted to the spike and replicase genes.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 1998
Leparc-Goffart I, Hingley S T, Jiang X, Chua M M, Lavi E, Weiss S R
Abstract excerpt
C12, an attenuated, fusion defective, very weakly hepatotropic mutant of MHV-A59 has been further characterized. Analysis of C12 in vivo in C57BL/6 mice has shown that despite the fact that this virus replicates in the brain to titers at least as high as wild type and causes acute encephalitis similar to wild type, this virus causes minimal demyelination. Thus acute encephalitis is not sufficient for induction of...
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