A chimera or chimeric virus is a virus that contains genetic material derived from two or more distinct viruses. It is defined by the Center for Veterinary ...
Virus chimeras contain genetic and/or structural components from different virus serotypes, species, or families. They can be generated either by exchanging ...
The viruses would be used to infect an animal model and analyze the neutralizing antibodies created. The result would be a set of SARS-CoV-2/SARS-CoV chimeric ...