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Presence of broadly reactive and group-specific neutralizing epitopes on newly described isolates of Free

Abstract

(CCHFV), a member of the genus of the family , causes severe disease in humans with high rates of mortality. The virus has a tripartite genome composed of a small (S), a medium (M) and a large (L) RNA segment; the M segment encodes the two viral glycoproteins, G and G. Whilst relatively few full-length M segment sequences are available, it is apparent that both G and G may exhibit significant sequence diversity. It is unknown whether considerable antigenic differences exist between divergent CCHFV strains, or whether there are conserved neutralizing epitopes. The M segments derived from viral isolates of a human case of CCHF in South Africa (SPU 41/84), an infected tick () in South Africa (SPU 128/81), a human case in Congo (UG 3010), an infected individual in Uzbekistan (U2-2-002) and an infected tick () in China (Hy13) were sequenced fully, and the glycoproteins were expressed. These novel sequences showed high variability in the N-terminal region of G and more modest differences in the remainder of G and in G. Phylogenetic analyses placed these newly identified strains in three of the four previously described M segment groups. Studies with a panel of mAbs specific to G and G indicated that there were significant antigenic differences between the M segment groups, although several neutralizing epitopes in both G and G were conserved among all strains examined. Thus, the genetic diversity exhibited by CCHFV strains results in significant antigenic differences that will need to be taken into consideration for vaccine development.

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Presence of broadly reactive and group-specific neutralizing epitopes on newly described isolates of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
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