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Antigenic evolution of vaccine-derived polioviruses: changes in individual epitopes and relative stability of the overall immunological properties.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2006
Yakovenko Maria L, Cherkasova Elena A, Rezapkin Gennady V, Ivanova Olga E, Ivanov Alexander P, Eremeeva Tatyana P, Baykova Olga Y, Chumakov Konstantin M, Agol Vadim I
Abstract excerpt
The Sabin oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) readily undergoes changes in antigenic sites upon replication in humans. Here, a set of antigenically altered descendants of the three OPV serotypes (76 isolates) was characterized to determine the driving forces behind these changes and their biological implications. The amino acid residues of OPV derivatives that lie within or close to the known antigenic sites exhibited...
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