Immunization of cotton rats with the human respiratory syncytial virus F glycoprotein produced using a baculovirus vector.

W Wathen, M; J Brideau, R; R Thomsen, D

doi:10.1093/infdis/159.2.255

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Immunization of cotton rats with the human respiratory syncytial virus F glycoprotein produced using a baculovirus vector.

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Authors:

M W Wathen

R J Brideau

D R Thomsen

Abstract

The F glycoprotein of respiratory syncytial virus in insect cells was produced using a baculovirus expression vector to examine its potential as a subunit vaccine. Two different forms of the F glycoprotein were expressed: the intact F (F) glycoprotein and the truncated (Ft) glycoprotein, in which th...

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