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. 2015 Mar 24;10(3):e0120283. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120283

Fig 1. Cytopathic effects of HMPV strains and recombinant HMPV viruses.

Fig 1

(a) microscopic images of cytopathic effects induced by HMPV infection of LLC-MK2 monolayers. CAN98–75 (B2) induces focal cell-rounding (left) whereas C-85473 (A1) induces multinucleated syncytia (right). Magnification = 10x. (b) Representation of the genomes of the 4 recombinant viruses used in this study; rC-85473 and rCAN98–75 represent the wild-type strains, rC-85473_F represents the chimeric rC-85473 strain in which the F gene has been replaced with that of CAN98–75 and rCAN98–75_F represent the chimeric rCAN98–75 in which the F gene has been replaced with that of C-85473.