| Literature DB >> 17070883 |
Sonja R Gerrard1, Brian H Bird, Cesar G Albariño, Stuart T Nichol.
Abstract
Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus belongs to the Bunyaviridae family of segmented negative-strand RNA viruses and causes mosquito-borne disease in sub-Saharan Africa. We report the development of a T7 RNA polymerase-driven plasmid-based genetic system for the virulent Egyptian isolate, ZH501. We have used this system to rescue a virus that has a 387 nucleotide deletion on the genomic M segment that eliminates the coding region for two non-structural proteins known as NSm. This virus, DeltaNSm rZH501, is indistinguishable from the parental ZH501 strain with respect to expression of structural proteins and growth in cultured mammalian cells.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17070883 PMCID: PMC2364454 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.09.035
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virology ISSN: 0042-6822 Impact factor: 3.616