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Genetic characterization of measles vaccine strains.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2011
Bankamp Bettina, Takeda Makoto, Zhang Yan, Xu Wenbo, Rota Paul A
Abstract excerpt
The complete genomic sequences of 9 measles vaccine strains were compared with the sequence of the Edmonston wild-type virus. AIK-C, Moraten, Rubeovax, Schwarz, and Zagreb are vaccine strains of the Edmonston lineage, whereas CAM-70, Changchun-47, Leningrad-4 and Shanghai-191 were derived from 4 different wild-type isolates. Nucleotide substitutions were found in the noncoding regions of the genomes as well as in...
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