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Elucidation of the full genetic information of Japanese rubella vaccines and the genetic changes associated with in vitro and in vivo vaccine virus phenotypes.
Vaccine - 24 Feb 2011
Otsuki Noriyuki, Abo Hitoshi, Kubota Toru, Mori Yoshio, Umino Yukiko, Okamoto Kiyoko, Takeda Makoto, Komase Katsuhiro
Abstract excerpt
Rubella is a mild disease characterized by low-grade fever, and a morbilliform rash, but causes congenital defects in neonates born from mothers who suffered from rubella during the pregnancy. After many passages of wild-type rubella virus strains in various types of cultured cells, five live attenuated rubella vaccines were developed in Japan. An inability to elicit anti-rubella virus antibodies in...
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