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US 2004/0120972 A1Published application
Equine herpes virus temperature sensitive mutant and live vaccine thereof
OwnerJay R. Patelinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an equine abortion virus (EHV-1) mutant which is temperature sensitive at the body temperature of the host animal, more specifically at a temperature of 38.5° C. or higher. The temperature sensitive mutant can be used in vaccination to protect susceptible animals against EHV-1 infection. The invention furthermore relates to live vaccines derived from said mutant.
Claims5
A temperature-sensitive (Ts) mutant of Equine abortion virus (EHV-1) characterized in that the virus is the EHV1 Ts-mutant deposited at the ECACC under Accession No. V99061001, or progeny thereof.
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