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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 79, 期 19, 页码 12608-12613出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.19.12608-12613.2005
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Recombinant human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in which the SH, G, or M2 gene or open reading frame was deleted by reverse genetics was evaluated for replication and vaccine efficacy following topical administration to the respiratory tract of African green monkeys, a permissive primate host. Replication of the ASH virus was only marginally less efficient than that of wild-type HMPV, whereas the Delta G and Delta M2-2 viruses were reduced sixfold and 160-fold in the upper respiratory tract and 3,200-fold and 4,000-fold in the lower respiratory tract, respectively. Even with the highly attenuated mutants, there was unequivocal HMPV replication at each anatomical site in each animal. Thus, none of these three proteins is essential for HMPV replication in a primate host, although G and M2-2 increased the efficiency of replication. Each gene-deletion virus was highly immunogenic and protective against wild-type HMPV challenge. The Delta G and Delta M2-2 viruses are promising vaccine candidates that are based on independent mechanisms of attenuation and are appropriate for clinical evaluation.
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