CDC - Lack of Evidence of Endogenous Avian Leukosis Virus and Endogenous Avian Retrovirus Transmission to Measles Mumps Rubella Vaccine Recipients

	*Research* Lack of Evidence of Endogenous Avian Leukosis Virus and Endogenous Avian Retrovirus Transmission to Measles Mumps Rubella Vaccine Recipients Althaf I. Hussain,* Vedapuri Shanmugam,* William M. Switzer,* Shirley X. Tsang,* Aly Fadly,† Donald Thea,‡ Rita Helfand,* William J. Bellini,* Thomas M. Folks,* and Walid Heneine* *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; ‡Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

	Back to article Figure 3. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis of sera from measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine recipients for the presence of avian leukosis virus (ALV) (A) and endogenous avian retrovirus (EAV) (B) RNA. Lanes 1-10, samples from MMR vaccine recipients. NC, negative control, uninfected human serum; PC, positive control, culture supernatant from Rous-associated virus 0 (RAV-0) infected 15B₁ chick embryo fibroblasts.

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