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A Highly Attenuated Mumps Virus Strain of Genotype F Generated by Passaging in Vero Cells

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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31702248), the Beijing Innovation Fund for Small Technology-based Firms (Z16010101394), We gratefully acknowledge the mumps throat swab samples support from Center for Zhejiang Provincial center For Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center For Disease Control And Prevention, Shanxi Provincial Center For Disease Control And Prevention, Beijing Center For Diseases Prevention And Control and Hubei Provincial Center For Disease Control And Prevention.

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Animal experiments in this study were approved by the Ethics Committees of Huazhong Agriculture University (Approval Number: HZAUMO-2019-020).

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Zhang, Y., Xie, L., Chai, B. et al. A Highly Attenuated Mumps Virus Strain of Genotype F Generated by Passaging in Vero Cells. Virol. Sin. 36, 337–340 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12250-020-00292-5

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