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Experimental infection with HVJ (haemagglutinating virus of Japan—the Sendai strain of parainfluenza 1 virus) in mice was studied. Aerosol infection of newborn mice with the wild-type virus (HVJ-W) retarded the development of body weight and killed the animals within a few weeks. Large amounts of virus were isolated from both the lungs and the nasal turbinates of infected mice. In contrast, newborn mice exposed by inhalation to a temperature-sensitive(ts) mutant (HVJ-pB) derived from an HVJ carrier culture showed no clinical signs and grew equally well as mock-infected animals. No infectious virus could be recovered from the lungs although thets mutant grew to moderate titre in the nasal turbinates.
The prior inoculation of newborn mice with thets mutant virus induced a state of significant resistance to subsequent challenge with the virulent wild-type virus.
No replication of challenge virus in both lungs and nasal turbinates could be detected and the animals were protected a lethal infection. It is suggested that an avirulent temperature-sensitive mutant which has lost the capacity to replicate in the lower respiratory tract but is still capable of multiplying in the nasal turbinates may be a promising candidate for use in live vaccines especially against the infectious disease of the lower respiratory tract.
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Kimura, Y., Aoki, H., Shimokata, K. et al. Protection of mice against virulent virus infection by a temperature-sensitive mutant derived from an HVJ (Sendai virus) carrier culture. Archives of Virology 61, 297–304 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01315016
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