title: Poxvirus Safety Analysis in the Pregnant Mouse Model, Vaccinia, and Raccoonpox Viruses.
abstract: Poxviruses cause many diseases in humans and animals worldwide, and there is a need for vaccines with improved safety and good efficacy. In addition, poxvirus vectors are widely used as recombinant vaccines for various infectious diseases and as recombinant and oncolytic vaccines for cancer. One concern with poxvirus vaccine vectors is that some poxviruses can infect a developing fetus and cause fetal loss or congenital disease. This can be an issue both for patients receiving a vaccine and for pregnant health care providers, including doctors, nurses, and veterinarians, who might receive accidental exposure to the poxvirus by injection or during patient care. We describe here a method for analyzing the safety of virus exposure in pregnant mammals using a mouse model testing vaccinia, canarypox, and raccoonpox virus vectors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA. roperr@ecu.edu.
authors.forename: Rachel L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Roper
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D005260:Female; D051379:Mice; D018155:Orthopoxvirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology; D011212:Poxviridae / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000502:physiology; D011213:Poxviridae Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy; D014615:Vaccinia / Q000175:diagnosis; D014709:Vero Cells; D019562:Viral Load; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000235:genetics; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D014765:Viral Vaccines
keywords: Canarypox; Poxvirus safety; Pregnant mouse; Raccoonpox; Vaccine; Virus