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SUBMITTER: Piper A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3676113 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Piper Amanda A Ribeiro Mariana M Smith Katherine M KM Briggs Caitlin M CM Huitt Emerson E Nanda Kavita K Spears Carla J CJ Quiles Michelle M Cullen John J Thomas Malcolm E ME Brown Dennis T DT Hernandez Raquel R
Journal of virology 20130403 12
A vaccine against Chikungunya virus (ChikV), a reemerging pathogenic arbovirus, has been made by attenuating wild-type (WT) virus via truncation of the transmembrane domain (TMD) of E2 and selecting for host range (HR) mutants. Mice are a standard model system for ChikV disease and display the same symptoms of the disease seen in humans. Groups of mice were inoculated with one of three ChikV HR mutants to determine the ability of each mutant strain to elicit neutralizing antibody and protective ...[more]