Vaccine omfattende en svækket pestvirus

摘要

The present invention relates to attenuated pestivurses, in particular to attenuated BVDV, wherein at least one mutation is in the coding sequence for glycoprotein Erns and at least another mutation in the coding sequence for Npro which preferably leads to combined inactivation of the RNase activity residing in glycoprotein Erns in addition to the inactivation of the (hypothesized) immunemodulating activity residing in Npro.The invention also relates to methods for attenuating pestiviruses such as BVDV, nucleic acids encoding said pestiviruses, in particular BVDV, compositions and vaccines comprising the attenuated pestiviruses, in particular BVDV of the invention.