Construction and characterization of a bovine herpesvirus 5 mutant with a deletion of the gI, gE and US9 genes Construção e caracterização de um mutante herpesvírus bovino 5 com uma deleção nos genes gI, gE e US9

Bovine herpesvirus 5 (BoHV-5) is a important cause of viral encephalitis in cattle in South America. Within the framework of developing a differential vaccine against BoHV-5, a deletion mutant was constructed based on a Brazilian BoHV-5 isolate. The target of the deletions were genes that code prote...

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Main Authors: Ana Cláudia Franco, Sílvia de Oliveira Hübner, Anna Paula de Oliveira, Helena B. de C. Ruthner Batista, Paulo Michel Roehe, Franciscus A.M. Rijsewijk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2007-12-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822007000400016