vesicular stomatitis

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. a disease of horses, swine, and cattle, similar in its symptoms to foot-and-mouth disease, and characterized by blisters on the lips, snout, and oral mucous membranes.

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Etymology

Origin of vesicular stomatitis

First recorded in 1900–05

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vesicular stomatitis

She made nearly 950 changes, hoping to modify the coronavirus gene just enough to take the place of a similar gene belonging to a benign virus: the vesicular stomatitis virus, or VSV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2020

It consists of a live but harmless vesicular stomatitis virus engineered to carry a gene for an Ebola surface protein.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 25, 2019

The Merck vaccine uses a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus to deliver the vaccine to cells, while the Johnson and Johnson vaccine used an adenovirus.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2019

That shot consists of Ebola surface proteins spliced to a live virus that causes the livestock disease vesicular stomatitis.

From Scientific American ● May 17, 2018

Cryo-EM model of the bullet-shaped vesicular stomatitis virus.

From Nature ● Nov. 7, 2017