Gene-editing viral DNA creates successful swine fever vaccine in research herd

New research yields a vaccine capable of inducing protection against the ASFv Georgia isolate and inducing sterile immunity against the current ASFv strain responsible for recent outbreaks.
calendar icon 12 December 2019
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Manuel V. Borca, Elizabeth Ramirez Medina, Ediane Silva, Elizabeth Vuono, Ayushi Rai, Sarah Pruitt, Lauren G. Holinka, Lauro Velazquez Salinas, James Zhu, Douglas P. Gladue
(2019) Development of a highly effective African swine fever virus vaccine by deletion of the I177L gene results in sterile immunity against the current epidemic Eurasia strain. bioRxiv 2 December 2019 [accessed 12.12.2019]
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