Poliovirus vaccine safety

The contamination of the rotavirus vaccine Rotarix with porcine circovirus 1 DNA was revealed by deep sequencing. The same technique was also used to demonstrate that oral poliovirus vaccine does not contain viruses that can cause poliomyelitis. The oral poliovirus vaccine strains developed by Albert Sabin (pictured) were licensed in the United States in 1962, …

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