vesicular stomatitis
noun
: an acute viral disease especially of various domesticated animals (such as horses and cows) that resembles foot-and-mouth disease, is marked by erosive blisters in and about the mouth, and is caused by any of three rhabdoviruses (Vesiculovirus alagoas, V. indiana, and V. newjersey) which sometimes infect humans producing flu-like symptoms
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The original, unadulterated viral protein causes vesicular stomatitis, a disease rarely found in humans.
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William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Merck’s vaccine consists of the gene for the surface protein of the Sudan ebolavirus stitched into vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a livestock pathogen that rarely causes harm in humans.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 23 Oct. 2022
The second shot used another virus, called vesicular stomatitis virus.
—New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
Their vaccine uses a virus called a vesicular stomatitis virus, engineered to be harmless, to express spike proteins.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2020
Rose and colleagues in his lab genetically modified a vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) that infects livestock but that doesn’t cause illness in people.
—Helen Branswell, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2019
The first case of vesicular stomatitis in Colorado this year was reported July 3 in Weld County.
—Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
But one of them — VSV-ZEBOV, in which the Ebola protein is spliced inside of a live vesicular stomatitis virus normally found in cattle — proved 100 percent effective in a preliminary test of more than 4,000 people in Guinea this past summer.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2015
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William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
Merck’s vaccine consists of the gene for the surface protein of the Sudan ebolavirus stitched into vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a livestock pathogen that rarely causes harm in humans.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 23 Oct. 2022
The second shot used another virus, called vesicular stomatitis virus.
—New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
Their vaccine uses a virus called a vesicular stomatitis virus, engineered to be harmless, to express spike proteins.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2020
Rose and colleagues in his lab genetically modified a vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) that infects livestock but that doesn’t cause illness in people.
—Helen Branswell, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2019
The first case of vesicular stomatitis in Colorado this year was reported July 3 in Weld County.
—Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
But one of them — VSV-ZEBOV, in which the Ebola protein is spliced inside of a live vesicular stomatitis virus normally found in cattle — proved 100 percent effective in a preliminary test of more than 4,000 people in Guinea this past summer.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2015
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“Vesicular stomatitis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vesicular%20stomatitis. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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