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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1998
John K. Rose, Guilford, CT (US);
Matthias Schnell, Harleysville, PA (US);
E. Erik Johnson, New Haven, CT (US);
John K. Rose, Guilford, CT (US);
Matthias Schnell, Harleysville, PA (US);
E. Erik Johnson, New Haven, CT (US);
Yale University, New Haven, CT (US);
Abstract
Replication-competent recombinant rhabdoviruses that lack a functional glycoprotein gene and express at least one foreign polypeptide such as a celluar receptor for another virus in their viral envelopes are useful in the treatment of pathogenic viruses. In one embodiment, a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) lacking its glycoprotein (G) gene and expressing instead the HIV receptor and a coreceptor is employed in a method for treating persons infected with HIV. The recombinant virus is defective for entry into normal cells but is able to control HIV infection in a T cell line by replicating in, and killing, HIV-infected cells.