Abstract
The ability of engineered variants of hepatitis A virus (strain HM175) to replicate in cell culture or to cause disease in marmosets was evaluated. Virus variants were encoded by chimeric genomes constructed from infectious cDNA clones of two viruses (wild type and cell-culture-adapted) which differed in their ability to grow in vitro and to cause acute hepatitis in marmosets. Transfection and infectivity assays indicated that virus growth in vitro could be enhanced by subcloning the cell substrate prior to infection or by introducing multiple combinations of two or more mutations into the wild type genome. Various chimeric viruses induced liver enzyme elevations in marmosets, indicating that attenuation of virulence also required multiple mutations.
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