Article
Characteristics of an environmentally monitored prolonged type 2 vaccine derived poliovirus shedding episode that stopped without intervention.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Hovi Tapani, Paananen Anja, Blomqvist Soile, Savolainen-Kopra Carita, Al-Hello Haider, Smura Teemu, Shimizu Hiroyuki, Nadova Katarina, Sobotova Zdenka, Gavrilin Eugene, Roivainen Merja
Abstract excerpt
Vaccine derived poliovirus (VDPV) type 2 strains strongly divergent from the corresponding vaccine strain, Sabin 2, were repeatedly isolated from sewage in Slovakia over a period of 22 months in 2003-2005. Cell cultures of stool specimens from known immune deficient patients and from an identified putative source population of 500 people failed to identify the potential excretor(s) of the virus. The occurrence of...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral
- Capsid Proteins
- Child
- Environmental Microbiology
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Mice
