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Interaction of virulent and attenuated tick-borne encephalitis virus strains in ticks and a tick cell line.
Folia parasitologica - 1 Jan 1998
Kopecký J, Stanková I
Abstract excerpt
An interference between a thermosensitive (ts) mutant and the wild-type (wt) of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus in Ixodes ricinus L. and Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Neumann) ticks is reported. I. ricinus females were dually infected by a parenteral inoculation of ts and wt strains at 10-day interval. Interference was demonstrated by the lowered ability of wt virus to replicate in ticks previously infected...
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