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A Cluster of Paralytic Poliomyelitis Cases Due to Transmission of Slightly Diverged Sabin 2 Vaccine Poliovirus.
Journal of virology - 1 Jul 2016
Korotkova Ekaterina A, Gmyl Anatoly P, Yakovenko Maria L, Ivanova Olga E, Eremeeva Tatyana P, Kozlovskaya Liubov I, Shakaryan Armen K, Lipskaya Galina Y, Parshina Irina L, Loginovskikh Nataliya V, Morozova Nadezhda S, Agol Vadim I
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Four cases of acute flaccid paralysis caused by slightly evolved (Sabin-like) vaccine polioviruses of serotype 2 were registered in July to August 2010 in an orphanage of Biysk (Altai Region, Russia). The Biysk cluster of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) had several uncommon, if not unique, features. (i) Until this outbreak, Sabin-like viruses (in distinction to more markedly evolved...
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