Laboratory characteristics of an attenuated influenza type A (H3N2) virus (‘Alice’ strain)

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Summary: The Alice strain of live attenuated influenza virus was obtained by selection of a γ inhibitor-resistant strain from a virus recombinant between A/PR/8/34 (H0N1) and A/England/42/72 (H3N2). Its behaviour in vitro and in vivo was studied. Three marker systems were investigated: resistance to serum inhibitors, growth capacity at high temperature and low sensitivity to amantadine hydrochloride. In ferrets the strain was found to be attenuated and immunogenic. Passages in man, animals and eggs have not affected its resistance to γ inhibitors.