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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2017

Rapid Identification of Measles Virus Vaccine Genotype by Real-Time PCR.

Felicia Roy, Lillian Mendoza, Joanne Hiebert, Rebecca J McNall, Bettina Bankamp, Sarah Connolly, Amy Lüdde, Nicole Friedrich, Annette Mankertz, Paul A Rota and 1 more

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Measles vaccine virus mutation following vaccination in a healthy child resulting in a false negative vaccine specific PCR test: Ontario, Canada, 2025.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025
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  9. Vaccine-Associated Measles in an Immunocompromised Host: Hospital Infection Prevention and Control and Public Health Response.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2024
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  15. Oncolytic viral vectors in the era of diversified cancer therapy: from preclinical to clinical.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Felicia RoyViral Exanthemata and STD Section, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Lillian MendozaViral Exanthemata and STD Section, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Joanne HiebertViral Exanthemata and STD Section, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Rebecca J McNallDivision of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Bettina BankampDivision of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Sarah ConnollyDivision of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Amy LüddeUnit Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Nicole FriedrichUnit Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Annette MankertzUnit Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Viruses Affecting Immunocompromised Patients, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Paul A RotaDivision of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Alberto SeveriniViral Exanthemata and STD Section, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada alberto.severini@phac-aspc.gc.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During measles outbreaks, it is important to be able to rapidly distinguish between measles cases and vaccine reactions to avoid unnecessary outbreak response measures such as case isolation and contact investigations. We have developed a real-time reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) method specific for genotype A measles virus (MeV) (MeVA RT-quantitative PCR [RT-qPCR]) that can identify measles vaccine strains rapidly, with high throughput, and without the need for sequencing to determine the genotype. We have evaluated the method independently in three measles reference laboratories using two platforms, the Roche LightCycler 480 system and the Applied Biosystems (ABI) 7500 real-time PCR system. In comparison to the standard real-time RT-PCR method, the MeVA RT-qPCR showed 99.5% specificity for genotype A and 94% sensitivity for both platforms. The new assay was able to detect RNA from five currently used vaccine strains, AIK-C, CAM-70, Edmonston-Zagreb, Moraten, and Shanghai-191. The MeVA RT-qPCR assay has been used successfully for measles surveillance in reference laboratories, and it could be readily deployed to national and subnational laboratories on a wide scale.

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GenotypeHumansMeasles VaccineMeasles virusReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSensitivity and SpecificityMeasles Vaccinegenotypingmeaslesmeasles vaccinemolecular methodsPCR

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PMID27852670
PMCPMC5328441

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