Abstract
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) shows a remarkable antigenic variability. Like other RNA viruses, this virus has a high rate of mutation. It has been proposed that selection exerted by the host's antibodies could play a major role in the rapid evolution of FMDV. The present work reports the selection of FMDV antibody-resistant populations (Nr), after serial passages of cloned FMDV A 24 Cruzeiro strain on secondary monolayers of bovine fetal kidney cells in the presence of subneutralizing antiviral polyclonal sera (APS). After a limited number of passages under selective pressure, the virus population showed the following characteristics: (1) increased resistance to neutralization by APS; (2) altered electrophoretic mobility of structural viral proteins (VP1); (3) remarkable plaque size reduction, (4) a pronounced thermosensitivity (ts); and (5) decreased pathogenicity for mice, in both uncloned and cloned small plaque size populations. This indicates that FMDV populations under antibody pressure in vitro, have acquired, in addition to expected characteristics of natural FMDV variants (resistance to neutralization and altered viral structural proteins), phenotypic markers which correspond to attenuated, less virulent variants.
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