Key virulence factors responsible for differences in pathogenicity between clinically proven live-attenuated Japanese encephalitis vaccine SA₁₄-14-2 and its pre-attenuated highly virulent parent SA₁₄

• Byung-Hak Song ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Byung-Hak Song, Sang-Im Yun

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

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• Sang-Im Yun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Byung-Hak Song, Sang-Im Yun

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

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• Joseph L. Goldhardt,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

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• Jiyoun Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

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• Young-Min Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: youngmin.lee@usu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3974-3405

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