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Fuxiao Liu1, Ling Li1, Yutian Liu1
1OIE Reference Laboratory for Peste des Petits Ruminants, National Research Center for Exotic Animal Diseases, China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, No.369 Nanjing Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266032, China.
Abstract:
Peste des petits ruminants and cystic hydatidosis may be simultaneously endemic in a given area. Their pathogens are small ruminant morbillivirus (SRMV) and Echinococcus granulosus (E. granulosus), respectively. The SRMV, formerly called peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV), is classified into the genus Morbillivirus in the family Paramyxoviridae. This virus is an ideal vaccine vector to deliver immunogenic proteins. In this study, a reverse genetics system was developed to rescue a recombinant SRMV (Nigeria 75/1 strain) expressing E. granulosus EG95 antigen in vitro. The recombinant SRMV, albeit replicating more slowly than its parental virus, could effectively express the EG95 antigen in cells by analyses of Western blot, indirect immunofluorescence and mass spectrometry. An EG95 subunit vaccine has been widely used for prevention of cystic hydatidosis in some areas of China. The EG95-expressing SRMV, if proven to induce effective immune responses against both diseases in a future animal experiment, would become a potential candidate of bivalent vaccine.
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