Method for identifying attenuated chickenpox virus Oka strain or strain
originating therein and acceptable as attenuated chickenpox vaccine
virus
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US6093535A

    公开(公告)日:2000-07-25

    申请号:US983045

    申请日:1998-01-15

    摘要: Disclosed is a method for exact identification of the attenuated varicella virus Oka strain or a strain derived therefrom capable of functioning as an attenuated varicella live vaccine virus, which comprises analyzing the difference in the genomic DNA and fragments thereof between the Oka strain and a sample varicella strain, and determining whether or not a sample strain satisfies all of the following eight characteristics: the sizes of the HpaI-K fragment and the EcoRI-P fragment; the size of R2-487 region of Gene14 and the analysis by PCR-SSCP; the sizes of the restriction fragments obtained by digesting the R2-1764 fragment with AccIII; the absence or presence of a PstI cleavage site; the homology of the amino acid sequences coded by R2-487 coding region; and the homology of the amino acid sequences coded by the coding region of VZV Gene14. The method of the present invention is extremely useful for the quality control and quality assurance of attenuated varicella live vaccines. Also disclosed are an isolated virus strain which is substantially the same virus strain as identified by the above method; an attenuated varicella virus live vaccine comprising the same virus strain as identified by the above method; an attenuated varicella virus Oka strain antigen; and a pair of primers which are advantageously, effectively usable in the above method.

    摘要翻译: PCT No.PCT / JP97 / 01646 Sec。 371日期1998年1月15日 102(e)日期1998年1月15日PCT提交1997年5月15日PCT公布。 公开号WO97 / 43420 PCT 日期1997年11月20日公开是一种精确鉴定减毒水痘病毒Oka菌株或由其衍生的能够作为减毒水痘活疫苗病毒的菌株的方法,其中包括分析Oka基因组DNA及其片段之间的差异 菌株和样本水痘菌株,并确定样品菌株是否满足以下八个特征:HpaI-K片段和EcoRI-P片段的大小; Gene14的R2-487区域的大小和通过PCR-SSCP的分析; 通过用AccIII消化R2-1764片段获得的限制性片段的大小; 不存在或存在PstI切割位点; 由R2-487编码区编码的氨基酸序列的同源性; 和由VZV Gene14的编码区编码的氨基酸序列的同源性。 本发明的方法对于减毒水痘活疫苗的质量控制和质量保证是非常有用的。 还公开了分离的病毒株,其通过上述方法鉴定为基本上相同的病毒株; 包含由上述方法鉴定的相同病毒株的减毒水痘病毒活疫苗; 减毒水痘病毒Oka株抗原; 以及有利地在上述方法中有效使用的一对引物。