The Mutation of the Genes Related to Neurovirulence in HSV-2 Produces an Attenuated Phenotype in Mice
HSV-2 (Herpes simplex virus type 2) is a critical viral agent that mainly causes genital herpes and life-long latent infection in the dorsal root ganglia. Gene modification via CRISPR/Cas9 Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat sequences/CRISPR associated 9) was used here to constr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-07-01
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Series: | Viruses |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/7/770 |