• Evolution of a rare vaccine-derived multirecombinant poliovirus 

      Karakasiliotis, I.; Paximadi, E.; Markoulatos, P. (2005)
      Recombination is one of the mechanisms by which viral genomes evolve. A vaccine-derived multirecombinant poliovirus strain was isolated from a 5-month-old child with vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis after oral ...
    • Growth kinetic analysis of bi-recombinant poliovirus vaccine strains 

      Pliaka, V.; Dedepsidis, E.; Kyriakopoulou, Z.; Papadi, G.; Tsakogiannis, D.; Pratti, A.; Levidiotou-Stefanou, S.; Markoulatos, P. (2010)
      Attenuated strains of Sabin poliovirus vaccine replicate in the human gut and in rare cases may cause vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP). Mutations at specific sites of the genome and recombination between ...