Pestivirus
AssigneeIntervet Inc.
InventorsAd de Groof, Lars Guelen, Carla Christina Schrier, Martin Deijs, Cornelia Maria van der Hoek
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a novel porcine pestivirus, to proteins of the virus and to vaccines based upon the virus and proteins thereof. The invention also relates to DNA fragments comprising a gene of the virus and to DNA vaccines based upon genes of the virus. Furthermore the invention relates to antibodies that are reactive with the novel virus and to diagnostic tests for the detection of the virus or antibodies against the virus.
Claims5
A gene encoding an E2 protein produced by heterologous expression in a non-pestivirus expression system, wherein the nucleotide sequence of said gene has a level of identity of at least 80% to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:
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