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SUBMITTER: Tam PE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC229355 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tam Patricia E PE Weber-Sanders Melissa L ML Messner Ronald P RP
Journal of virology 20031101 21
Mice infected with myopathic coxsackievirus B1 Tucson (CVB1(T)) develop chronic inflammatory myopathy (CIM) consisting of hind limb weakness and inflammation. Amyopathic virus variants are infectious but attenuated for CIM. In this report, viral clones, chimeras, and sequencing were used to identify viral determinants of CIM. Chimeras identified several regions involved in CIM and localized a weakness determinant to nucleotides 2493 to 3200 of VP1. Sequencing of multiple clones and viruses ident ...[more]