An Overview of Live Attenuated Recombinant Pseudorabies Viruses for Use as Novel Vaccines
Pseudorabies virus (PRV) is a double-stranded, DNA-based swine virus with a genome approximating 150 kb in size. PRV has many nonessential genes which can be replaced with genes encoding heterologous antigens but without deleterious effects on virus propagation. Recombinant PRVs expressing both nati...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2014-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Immunology Research |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/824630 |