JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS ANTIGEN AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive Japanese encephalitis vaccine using neither mouse brain nor virus, serving as an alternative to inactivated Japanese encephalitis virus used as the current Japanese encephalitis vaccine.

SOLUTION: A Japanese encephalitis virus antigen as the inexpensive Japanese encephalitis vaccine includes Japanese encephalitis virus-like particles, wherein said virus-like particles, being protein aggregates, include both M protein and E protein inherent in Japanese encephalitis virus but no RNA and are characterized by expressing erythrocyte coagulation activity.

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