A live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate with accessory protein deletions
Y. Liu, X. Zhang, J. Liu, H. Xia, J. Zou, A. E. Muruato, S. Periasamy, J. A. Plante, N. E. Bopp, C. Kurhade, A. Bukreyev, P. Ren, T. Wang, V. D. Menachery, K. S. Plante, , P.-Y. Shi
This paper describes a live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate with deleted ORFs that shows reduced replication and attenuation in animal models, and reports its protective efficacy against wild-type virus challenge.
bioRxiv · Feb 14, 2022Microbiology