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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2017

Pathogenicity and Immunogenicity of Recombinant Rabies Viruses Expressing the Lagos Bat Virus Matrix and Glycoprotein: Perspectives for a Pan-Lyssavirus Vaccine.

Joe Kgaladi, Milosz Faber, Bernhard Dietzschold, Louis H Nel, Wanda Markotter

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Joe KgaladiCentre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham 2193, South Africa. joe.kgaladi@gmail.com.
Milosz FaberDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. milosz.faber@jefferson.edu.
Bernhard DietzscholdDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. bernhard.dietzschold@jefferson.edu.
Louis H NelDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. louis.nel@up.ac.za.
Wanda MarkotterCentre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. wanda.markotter@up.ac.za.ORCID 0000-0002-7550-0080
Thomas Jefferson University · USUniversity of Pretoria · ZANational Health Laboratory Service · ZA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lagos bat virus (LBV) is a phylogroup II lyssavirus exclusively found in Africa. Previous studies indicated that this virus is lethal to mice after intracranial and intramuscular inoculation. The antigenic composition of LBV differs substantially from that of rabies virus (RABV) and current rabies vaccines do not provide cross protection against phylogroup II lyssaviruses. To investigate the potential role of the LBV matrix protein (M) and glycoprotein (G) in pathogenesis, reverse genetics technology was used to construct recombinant viruses. The genes encoding the glycoprotein, or the matrix and glycoprotein of the attenuated RABV strain SPBN, were replaced with those of LBV resulting in SPBN-LBVG and SPBN-LBVM-LBVG, respectively. To evaluate the immunogenicity of the LBV G, the recombinant RABV SPBNGAS-LBVG-GAS was constructed with the LBV G inserted between two mutated RABV G genes (termed GAS). All the recombinant viruses were lethal to mice after intracranial (i.c.) inoculation although the pathogenicity of SPBNGAS-LBVG-GAS was lower compared to the other recombinant viruses. Following intramuscular (i.m.) inoculation, only SPBN-LBVM-LBVG was lethal to mice, indicating that both the M and G of LBV play a role in the pathogenesis. Most interestingly, serum collected from mice that were inoculated i.m. with SPBNGAS-LBVG-GAS neutralized phylogroup I and II lyssaviruses including RABV, Duvenhage virus (DUVV), LBV, and Mokola virus (MOKV), indicating that this recombinant virus has potential to be developed as a pan-lyssavirus vaccine.

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Africalyssaviruspathogenesisrabiesrecombinant virusesvaccines

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PMID30270894
PMCPMC6082111
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