DNA sequence variability in Oka vaccine isolates [1]

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 196, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 801-802

  Breuer, Judith ^a   Quinlivan, Mark ^a   Al Bassam, Mahmoud ^a   Macdonald, Susannah ^a   Nichols, Richard A ^b   Steinberg, Sharon P ^c   La Russa, Philip ^c   Gershon, Anne A ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; WILD TYPE;

CHICKENPOX; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34548068301     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520520     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

1. Loparev VN, Rubtcova E, Seward JF, Levin MJ, Schmid DS. DNA sequence variability in isolates recovered from patients with postvaccination rash or herpes zoster caused by Oka varicella vaccine. J Infect Dis 2007; 195:502-10.
2. Quinlivan ML, Gershon AA, Steinberg SP, Breuer J. Rashes occurring after immunization with a mixture of viruses in the Oka vaccine are derived from single clones of virus. J Infect Dis 2004; 190:793-6.
3. Quinlivan ML, Gershon AA, Al Bassam MM, et al. Natural selection for rash-forming genotypes of the varicella-zoster vaccine virus detected within immunized human hosts. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2007; 104:208-12.
4. Quinlivan ML, Gershon AA, Nichols RA, La Russa P, Steinberg SP, Breuer J. Vaccine Oka varicella-zoster virus genotypes are monomorphic in single vesicles and polymorphic in respiratory tract secretions. J Infect Dis 2006; 193:927-30.