Article
Long-term excretion of vaccine-derived poliovirus by a healthy child.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 2004
Martín Javier, Odoom Kofi, Tuite Gráinne, Dunn Glynis, Hopewell Nicola, Cooper Gill, Fitzharris Catherine, Butler Karina, Hall William W, Minor Philip D
Abstract excerpt
A child was found to be excreting type 1 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) with a 1.1% sequence drift from Sabin type 1 vaccine strain in the VP1 coding region 6 months after he was immunized with oral live polio vaccine. Seventeen type 1 poliovirus isolates were recovered from stools taken from this child during the following 4 months. Contrary to expectation, the child was not deficient in humoral immunity and...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral
- Capsid Proteins
- Evolution, Molecular
- Feces
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Transgenic
