## Abstract The relative ability of a varicella‐zoster virus (VZV) clinical isolate and a live attenuated VZV vaccine strain (Oka) to infect human neurons was determined in vitro. VZV infection of neurons prepared in culture from dorsal root ganglia of fetuses was assessed using an infectious cente
Rapid Molecular Discrimination between Infection with Wild-Type Varicella-Zoster Virus and Varicella Vaccine Virus
✍ Scribed by U. Lässker; T. C. Harder; M. Hufnagel; M. Suttorp
- Book ID
- 107705125
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 84 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0300-8126
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