Browsing by Subject "POLIOMYELITIS"
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Evolution of a rare vaccine-derived multirecombinant poliovirus
(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
(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 ... -
Recombinant Sabin environmental isolates in Greece and Cyprus
(2008)Aims: Twenty-one polioviruses (PVs) Sabin strains were isolated from sewage treatment plants from Metamorphosis, Athens, Greece during the time period from May to October 1996, and from two other sites located at Nicosia ... -
A seroprevalence study of poliovirus antibody against a collection of recombinant and non-recombinant poliovirus vaccine strains in the population of southern Greece
(2010)P>In this study, the serological status of the southern Greek population in the 1-10-year, 11-20-year, 21-30-year and 31-40 -year age groups with regard to Sabin vaccine strains and a collection of 15 recombinant and four ...