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A small clinical trial with the Glenn type 3 poliovirus vaccine has shown that the strain is antigenic and retains its attenuated characters on human passage at least as well as any other reported type 3 strain. The antigenicity and stability of the various type 3 vaccine strains should be compared in a larger clinical trial.
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Barnes, J.M., Heymann, C.S., Galbraith, N.S. et al. A clinical trial of Glenn type 3 attenuated poliovirus vaccine. Archiv f Virusforschung 20, 296–304 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01241949
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