Article
The Urabe AM9 mumps vaccine is a mixture of viruses differing at amino acid 335 of the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase gene with one form associated with disease.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 1996
Brown E G, Dimock K, Wright K E
Abstract excerpt
The reason for the high incidence of vaccine-associated meningitis due to the Urabe AM9 vaccine was assessed by comparing the nucleotide (nt) sequence of the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) gene from vaccine virus to those of viruses isolated from persons with postvaccination meningitis. A G1081...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Genetic Variation
- HN Protein
- Humans
- Meningitis, Viral
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mumps Vaccine
- Mumps virus
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Vero Cells
- Virulence