id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-275348-jna496x7 Kapadia, Sagar U. SARS vaccine based on a replication-defective recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus is more potent than one based on a replication-competent vector 2008-06-20 .txt text/plain 5982 317 53 A SARS vaccine based on a live-attenuated vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) recombinant expressing the SARS-CoV S protein provides long-term protection of immunized mice from SARS-CoV infection (Kapadia, S.U., Rose, J. We found that the vaccine given intramuscularly induced a neutralizing antibody response to SARS-CoV that was approximately ten-fold greater than that required for the protection from SARS-CoV infection, and significantly greater than that generated by the replication-competent vector expressing SARS-CoV S protein given by the same route. In order to evaluate this vector as a SARS vaccine candidate, we also developed a SARS-CoV neutralization assay using a pseudotyped VSV recombinant expressing a green fluorescent protein. SARS-CoV neutralizing antibody titers of these sera were determined by incubating VSVΔG-EGFP/SΔtail-HA virus with serial dilutions of these sera, and the virusserum mixtures were transferred to a monolayer of Vero E6 cells. ./cache/cord-275348-jna496x7.txt ./txt/cord-275348-jna496x7.txt