In vitro adaptation and characterization of attenuated hypervariable region 1 swap chimeras of hepatitis C virus.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronically infects 70 million people worldwide with an estimated annual disease-related mortality of 400,000. A vaccine could prevent spread of this pervasive human pathogen, but has proven difficult to develop, partly due to neutralizing antibody evasion mechanisms that are...

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Main Authors: Christina Holmboe Olesen, Elias H Augestad, Fulvia Troise, Jens Bukh, Jannick Prentoe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009720