poliovirus
小儿麻痹病毒,小儿麻痹症病毒,小儿麻痹症,脊髓灰质炎病毒
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plural po·li·o·vi·rus·es.
- : any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
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In 2013, the ADF teamed up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a mission to eradicate polio, and last year all of sub-Saharan Africa was declared free of wild poliovirus.
Most people who become infected with poliovirus don’t feel sick, while some have flu-like symptoms.
As vaccine virus multiplies in the gut, it can lose key genetic changes, bringing it closer to behaving like wild poliovirus.
Weakened poliovirus in the vaccine has genetic changes that keep it from causing disease.
The Salk vaccine used three types of poliovirus, including the Mahoney strain, known to be particularly deadly but it also produced the strongest immune response.
Enterovirus itself, with dozens of different types that affect humans, is another, as is—most famously—poliovirus.