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A systematic review of human-to-human transmission of measles vaccine virus.
Vaccine - 17 May 2016
Greenwood Kathryn P, Hafiz Radwan, Ware Robert S, Lambert Stephen B
Abstract excerpt
Measles is one of the most contagious human diseases. Administration of the live attenuated measles vaccine has substantially reduced childhood mortality and morbidity since its licensure in 1963. The live but attenuated form of the vaccine describes a virus poorly adapted to replicating in human tissue, but with a replication yield sufficient to elicit an immune response for long-term protection. Given the high...
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