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Avipoxvirus multiplication in mammalian cell line reported

Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, May 18th, 2005

Researchers report avipoxvirus multiplication in a mammalian cell line in a recent issue of Virus Research.

"Avipoxviruses have many advantages and are being increasingly employed as recombinant vaccine vectors. One attractive feature is that while inserted transgenes are expressed in immunologically favorable ways, avipoxvirus infections of mammalian cells are believed to be abortive. The experimental evidence supporting this belief is, however, based on a limited number of mammalian cell-types and a few avipoxvirus species. We evaluated two avian and eight mammalian cell lines for permissivity to three avipoxvirus strains, one reference fowlpoxvirus and two...

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