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Isolation of vaccine-derived measles viruses from children with acute respiratory infection.
The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine - 1 Jun 2013
Aoki Yoko, Mizuta Katsumi, Ikeda Tatsuya, Abiko Chieko, Itagaki Tsutomu, Ahiko Tadayuki
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The measles elimination project led by the World Health Organization (WHO) has been moving toward the target of eliminating measles in the WHO Western Pacific Region. In Japan, prefectural public health institutes play a key role for the laboratory diagnosis of measles virus (MV) infection, which is based on PCR, virus isolation, and genotyping. Microscopic examination of viral-sensitive cell lines during routine...
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