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Vaccine 35:3988–3994 CAS Article Google Scholar Download references 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. Yajing Zhang and Lixia Xie contributed equally to the study. R&D Department, Shanghai King-cell biotechnology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 201506, China Yajing Zhang, Lixia Xie, Juncheng Ruan, Yulin Gu, Biao Niu, Yachun Zhang, Qi An & Dayong Tian State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China Benjie Chai, Zhenfang Fu & Dayong Tian You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Correspondence to Zhenfang Fu or Qi An or Dayong Tian. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Animal experiments in this study were approved by the Ethics Committees of Huazhong Agriculture University (Approval Number: HZAUMO-2019-020). Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material. Reprints and Permissions 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. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12250-020-00292-5 Download citation Received: 24 February 2020 Accepted: 28 June 2020 Published: 29 September 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12250-020-00292-5