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Summary
The inoculation of New Zealand white rabbits with four low passage or wild rubella virus strains and four vaccine strains gave differences in antibody response and virus shedding. These differences can be useful as markers of strain differences and for studies of mechanisms of attenuation. The low passage wild virus strains produced high antibody levels and variable amounts of virus shedding. The vaccine strains resulted in little or no antibody and no virus shedding.
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