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Evolution of the Sabin Vaccine into Pathogenic Derivatives without Appreciable Changes in Antigenic Properties: Need for Improvement of Current Poliovirus Surveillance
8 Jan 2009
Abstract excerpt
The Sabin oral polio vaccine (OPV) may evolve into pathogenic viruses, causing sporadic cases and outbreaks of poliomyelitis. Such vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPV) generally exhibit altered antigenicity. The current paradigm to distinguish VDPV from OPV and wild polioviruses is to characterize primarily those poliovirus isolates that demonstrate deviations from OPV in antigenic and genetic intratypic...
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