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Infection with wild-type mumps virus in army recruits temporally associated with MMR vaccine.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Oct 1999
Cohen B J, Jin L, Brown D W, Kitson M
Abstract excerpt
Four cases of mumps were reported among 180 army recruits who had received MMR vaccine 16 days earlier. Mumps serology, salivary mumps IgM and PCR tests for the SH gene were performed on the 4 cases and on 5 control recruits who remained well. PCR products were sequenced and the sequences compared to those of wild type and vaccine strains of mumps. Further salivary mumps IgM tests were performed on the remaining...
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