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High diversity of poliovirus strains isolated from the central nervous system from patients with vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 1994
Georgescu M M, Delpeyroux F, Tardy-Panit M, Balanant J, Combiescu M, Combiescu A A, Guillot S, Crainic R
Abstract excerpt
To establish the etiology of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP), isolates from the central nervous system (CNS) from eight patients with VAPP were compared with stool isolates from the same patients. The vaccine (Sabin) origin was checked for all of the available isolates. Unique and similar strains were recovered from paired stool and CNS samples for five of the eight VAPP cases and the three...
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