Protection of Mice against Lethal Coxsackievirus B3 Infection by Using DNA Immunization |
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| Authors: | Andreas Henke Elke Wagner J Lindsay Whitton Roland Zell and Axel Stelzner |
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| Institution: | Institute of Virology, Medical Center, Friedrich Schiller University, 07745 Jena, Germany,1. and Department of Neuropharmacology, CVN-9, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 920372. |
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| Abstract: | Vaccination with DNA and recombinant vaccinia viruses (rec.VV) has been studied with the coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) model system. Plasmids encoding all structural proteins of CVB3, when injected intramuscularly, induced only low levels of virus-specific antibodies. However, DNA vaccination with the major structural protein VP1 protected 72.2% of mice from lethal challenge, whereas VP1 expressed by rec.VV was much less efficient. |
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