| Literature DB >> 21288800 |
Joan L Kenney1, Sara M Volk, Jyotsna Pandya, Eryu Wang, Xiaodong Liang, Scott C Weaver.
Abstract
The greatest risk from live-attenuated vaccines is reversion to virulence. Particular concerns arise for RNA viruses, which exhibit high mutation frequencies. We examined the stability of 3 attenuation strategies for the alphavirus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV): a traditional, point mutation-dependent attenuation approach exemplified by TC-83; a rationally designed, targeted-mutation approach represented by V3526; and a chimeric vaccine, SIN/TC/ZPC. Our findings suggest that the chimeric strain combines the initial attenuation of TC-83 with the greater phenotypic stability of V3526, highlighting the importance of the both initial attenuation and stability for live-attenuated vaccines.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21288800 PMCID: PMC3060670 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.01.055
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vaccine ISSN: 0264-410X Impact factor: 3.641