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C Kempf1, P Jentsch, B Poirier, F Barré-Sinoussi, J J Morgenthaler, A Morell, D Germann.
Abstract
The effect of pepsin treatment at pH 4 on the infectivity of several enveloped viruses was assessed under the conditions used during the production of intravenous immunoglobulins. It was shown that the prototypes of four virus families--human immunodeficiency virus (Lentivirinae), herpes simplex virus type 1 and human cytomegalovirus (Herpesviridae), Semliki Forest virus (Togaviridae), and vesicular stomatitis virus (Rhabdoviridae)--were inactivated by this procedure. With vesicular stomatitis virus as a model, the contributions of both low pH and pepsin were demonstrated, and pepsin had a synergistic or additive action.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1646503 DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1991.31591263197.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Transfusion ISSN: 0041-1132 Impact factor: 3.157