Expression of foot-and-mouth disease virus capsid proteins in silkworm-baculovirus expression system and its utilization as a subunit vaccine.

<h4>Background</h4>Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious disease of livestock that causes severe economic loss in susceptible cloven-hoofed animals. Although the traditional inactivated vaccine has been proved effective, it may lead to a new outbreak of FMD because of eithe...

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Main Authors: Zhiyong Li, Yongzhu Yi, Xiangping Yin, Zhifang Zhang, Jixing Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18509464/pdf/?tool=EBI