Vaccine contamination with Simian vacuolating virus 40, known as SV40 occurred in the United States and other countries between 1955 and 1961. SV40 is...
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replication and transcription. Following contamination of polio vaccine batches in the 1950s and 1960s, SV40 came under suspicion as a possible cancer...
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received one or more doses of polio vaccine between 1955 and 1963 when a proportion of vaccine was contaminated with SV40; an estimated 10–30 million Americans...
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Bernice Eddy (category Articles with short description)
the origins of the widespread contamination of a variety of stocks of seed viruses and live polio virus vaccine by SV40 that had been written about in...
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Maurice Hilleman (category Articles with short description)
contaminate vaccines. The best-known of these viruses is SV40, a viral contaminant of the polio vaccine, whose discovery led to the recall of Salk's vaccine in...
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transcriptional termination sequences. An example of DNA vaccine plasmid is pVAC, which uses SV40 promoter. Structural instability phenomena are of particular...
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hold a hearing into SV40 contamination of vaccines. The United States National Cancer Institute announced in 2004 that although SV40 does cause cancer in...
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consensus AIDS origin SV40 A scientifically accepted case of a monkey virus contaminating polio vaccine – Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) only. Zoonosis...
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Polyomaviridae (category Articles with short description)
million people may have been exposed to SV40 due to previously undetected SV40 contamination of polio vaccine, prompting concern about the possibility...
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Cell culture (category Articles with short description)
preparation of purified viruses for the manufacture of vaccines. The injectable polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was one of the first products mass-produced...
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Pharmaceutical industry (category Articles with short description)
Institute announced that it had concluded that SV40 is not associated with cancer in people. Other notable new vaccines of the period include those for measles...
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Transient expression (category Articles with short description)
by incorporating viral elements derived from mammalian viruses, such as SV40 virus or Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), which are notable for their high retention...
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Genetically modified organism (category All articles with dead external links)
inserting new genetic information into DNA of Simian Virus 40: circular SV40 DNA molecules containing lambda phage genes and the galactose operon of Escherichia...
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Expression vector (category Articles with short description)
vectors, as well as baculovirus. The promoters for cytomegalovirus (CMV) and SV40 are commonly used in mammalian expression vectors to drive gene expression...
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Merkel cell polyomavirus (category Articles with short description)
transmitted to humans from rodents.) Although it has been confused with the controversial SV40 virus in some blog postings, it is a distinct virus.[citation...
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Genetically modified food (category All articles with incomplete citations)
Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA Molecules Containing Lambda Phage Genes and the Galactose Operon of Escherichia...
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