Rashes occurring after immunization with a mixture of viruses in the oka vaccine are derived from single clones of virus

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 793-796

  Quinlivan, Mark L ^a   Gershon, Anne A ^b   Steinberg, Sharon P ^b   Breuer, Judith ^a  

^a Inst of Cell and Molecular Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; OKA VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; VACCINATION REACTION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHICKENPOX; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; EXANTHEMA; GENES, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VACCINATION;

EID: 3943099241     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423210     Document Type: Article

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