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标题：Development of in vitro and in vivo neutralization assays based on the pseudotyped H7N9 virus
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作者：Yabin Tian ; Hui Zhao ; Qiang Liu 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：8484
DOI：10.1038/s41598-018-26822-6
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：H7N9 viral infections pose a great threat to both animal and human health. This avian virus cannot be handled in level 2 biocontainment laboratories, substantially hindering evaluation of prophylactic vaccines and therapeutic agents. Here, we report a high-titer pseudoviral system with a bioluminescent reporter gene, enabling us to visually and quantitatively conduct analyses of virus replications in both tissue cultures and animals. For evaluation of immunogenicity of H7N9 vaccines, we developed an in vitro assay for neutralizing antibody measurement based on the pseudoviral system; results generated by the in vitro assay were found to be strongly correlated with those by either hemagglutination inhibition (HI) or micro-neutralization (MN) assay. Furthermore, we injected the viruses into Balb/c mice and observed dynamic distributions of the viruses in the animals, which provides an ideal imaging model for quantitative analyses of prophylactic and therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. Taken together, the pseudoviral systems reported here could be of great value for both in vitro and in vivo evaluations of vaccines and antiviral agents without the need of wild type H7N9 virus.