Vaccinia virus (VV) has been widely used in biomedical research and the improvement of human health. This article describes a simple, highly efficient method to edit the VV genome using a CRISPR-Cas9 system.
Yuan, M., Wang, P., Chard, L. S., Lemoine, N. R., Wang, Y. A Simple and Efficient Approach to Construct Mutant Vaccinia Virus Vectors. J. Vis. Exp. (116), e54171, doi:10.3791/54171 (2016).