Junin Virus
Findings in junin virus reported from S.E. Goni and co-researchers
Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 16th, 2010
"The Junin virus strain Candid#1 was developed as a live attenuated vaccine for Argentine hemorrhagic fever. In this article, we report sequence information of the L and S RNAs of Junin virus Candid#1 and XJ#44 strains, and show the comparisons with the XJ13 wild-type strain and with other Junin virus strains, like Romero, IV4454 and MC2 strains, and other closely and distantly related arenaviruses," scientists in Buenos Aires, Argentina report.
"Comparisons of the nucleotide and amino acid sequences of all genes of three strains from the same vaccine genealogy, revealed different point mutations that could be associated with the attenuated phenotype. A 91% of the...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2010-06-16)
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