Poliovirus

Poliovirus has a small genome, about the size of two human genes, so it was within technological reach in 1980.

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Robbins, “Cultivation of the Lansing Strain of Poliomyelitis Virus in Cultures of Various Human Embryonic Tissues,” Science 49 (1949): 85–87; Fred S. Rosen, “Isolation of Poliovirus—John Enders and the Nobel Prize,” New England Journal of Medicine 351 (2004): 1481–83.

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Robbins, “Cultivation of the Lansing Strain of Poliomyelitis Virus in Cultures of Various Human Embryonic Tissues,” Science 49 (1949): 85–87; Fred S. Rosen, “Isolation of Poliovirus—John Enders and the Nobel Prize,” New England Journal of Medicine 351 (2004): 1481–83.

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Robbins, “Cultivation of the Lansing Strain of Poliomyelitis Virus in Cultures of Various Human Embryonic Tissues,” Science 49 (1949): 85–87; Fred S. Rosen, “Isolation of Poliovirus—John Enders and the Nobel Prize,” New England Journal of Medicine 351 (2004): 1481–83.

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In these tests total elimination of the bacteria Escherichia coli at 108.4 per litre was recorded whilst reductions of Poliovirus in excess of 99.9%, with a holding time of 2 minutes, were recorded.

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· 'Poliovirus reservoirs' where transmission is particularly intense.

Chapter 3 2001

Thus the Adenovirus was selected to represent the ADV virus without coating, the Poliovirus and the Coxsachievirus represent the ARN virus without coating, while the measles virus at the Semliki Forest represent the ARN with a coating.

Chapter 12 1991

Ainsi l'Adenovirus a t retenu comme reprsentt des virus ADN sans enveloppes; le Poliovirus et le Coxcachievirus reprsentaient les virus ARN sans enveloppe, le Herpes les virus ADN avec enveloppe, tandis que le virus de la Rougeole et le Semliki Forest reprsentaient les ARN portant une enveloppe.

Chapter 7 1991

Altan-Bonnet and her team also were able to identify the viral protein (the so-called 3A protein in Poliovirus and Coxsackievirus infections) that captures and recruits the cellular enzyme (phosphatidylinositol-4-kinase III beta).

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Certain RNA viruses - Poliovirus, Hepatitis C virus and Coxsackievirus - and possibly many other families of viruses copy themselves by seizing an enzyme from their host cell to create replication factories enriched in a specific lipid, explains Altan-Bonnet.

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