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Rabies Vaccines
Recent studies from Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention add new data to rabies vaccines
September 3rd, 2008
Fresh data on rabies are presented in the report 'Characterization of human rabies virus vaccine strain in China.' According to recent research published in the journal Virus Research, "Human rabies virus vaccine strain CTN181 from China was sequenced. The overall length of the genome was 11,923 nucleotides (nt), comprising a leader sequence of 58 nt, nucleoprotein (N) gene of 1353 nt, phosphoprotein (P) gene of 894 nt, matrix protein (M) gene of 609 nt, glycoprotein (G) gene of 1575 nt, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp, L) gene of 6387 nt, and a trailer region of 70 nt." "The five monocistrons are separated by intergenic regions (IGRs) of 2, 5, 5 and 24...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-09-03)
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