Article
The Jeryl Lynn vaccine strain of mumps virus is a mixture of two distinct isolates.
The Journal of general virology - 1 May 1993
Afzal M A, Pickford A R, Forsey T, Heath A B, Minor P D
Abstract excerpt
Sequence analysis of the region of the mumps virus genome encoding the putative small hydrophobic protein gene confirms that it is a highly variable region. Jeryl Lynn, the mumps vaccine strain used in the U.K., is shown to be a mixture of two closely related viruses, both probably of American origin.
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