%0 Journal Article %A Bussereau, Françoise %A Benejean, Jacqueline %A Saghi, Naima %T Isolation and Study of Temperature-sensitive Mutants of Rabies Virus %D 1982 %J Journal of General Virology, %V 60 %N 1 %P 153-158 %@ 1465-2099 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-60-1-153 %K complementation %K mutagen %K rabies %K ts mutants %I Microbiology Society, %X SUMMARY One-hundred and seventeen temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants have been isolated from the challenge virus strain (CVS) of rabies virus (RV). The criterion used for this selection was the absence of plaque-forming units on CER cells under agarose medium at the non-permissive temperature (NPT) of 38.5 °C. Of these mutants, 102 were induced by 5-fluorouracil. This compound was much more effective as a mutagen than either nitrous acid or the alkylating agents ethyl methanesulphonate and methyl methanesulphonate. Seventy-six of the ts mutants exhibited residual multiplication at NPT which was less than 2% of that of the wild-type virus. Attempts to demonstrate complementation were unsuccessful, although three phenotypic groups have been established by biochemical and immunological tests. Possible reasons for the failure to obtain complementation are discussed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-60-1-153