Cell adhesion molecules of the immunoglobulin superfamily are aberrantly expressed in malignant glioma. Amongst these, the human poliovirus receptor CD155 provides a molecular target for therapeutic intervention with oncolytic poliovirus recombinants. Poliovirus has been genetically modified through insertion of regulatory sequences derived from human rhinovirus type 2 to selectively replicate ...

Recombinant vaccines hold great promise for the prevention and therapy of infections diseases and cancer. We have explored the use of poliovirus as a recombinant vector to deliver genes into cells for the purpose of vaccination. For our studies, we have chosen to express the gene-encoding carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) using a novel poliovirus vector. We have constructed a recombinant CEA-polio...

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) continues to make progress toward the eradication target. Only one of the three serotypes, wild poliovirus (WPV) type 1 (WPV1), is still circulating, and the numbers of cases and countries with endemic transmission are at record lows. With the certification of wild poliovirus type 2 (WPV2) eradication in 2015 and the global replacement of trivalent...

BACKGROUND Oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) has not been used in the United States since 2000. Type 1 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) was identified in September 2005, from an unvaccinated Amish infant hospitalized in Minnesota with severe combined immunodeficiency. An investigation was conducted to determine the source of the virus and its means of transmission. METHODS The infant was tested ...

Poliovirus genomic RNA replication, protein translation, and virion assembly are performed in the cytoplasm of host cells. However, this does not mean that there is no relationship between poliovirus infection and the cellular nucleus. In this study, recombinant fluorescence-tagged poliovirus 3CD and 3C0 proteins were shown to be expressed mainly in the cytoplasm of Vero cells in the absence of...

When Detroit cells are infected with poliovirus in the presence of 5/~g./ml. of actinomycin, cell-controlled RNA synthesis is blocked and 2-[14C]uridine is incorporated only into poliovirus-specific RNA. The addition of polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (5/%/ml.) under such conditions results in the inhibition of synthesis of 35s intracellular, infectious poliovirus RNA. A high molecular weight f...

Smull, Christine E. (The Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pa.), and E. H. Ludwig. Infectivity of poliovirus and its nucleic acid for dehydrated HeLa cell monolayers. J. Bacteriol. 89:52-57. 1965.-A study was made of the infectivity of poliovirus ribonucleic acid (RNA), applied in various diluents, and of poliovirus, on cell monolayers which were washed free from their nutrient medium and all...

Picornaviruses encode for their own proteinases, which are responsible for the proteolytic processing of the polyprotein encoded in the viral genome to produce the mature viral polypeptides. The two poliovirus proteinases, known as proteins 2A and 3C, use the poliovirus-encoded polyprotein as a substrate. The possibility that these poliovirus proteinases also degrade cellular proteins remains l...

The National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) is responsible for poliovirus testing for Australia and the Pacific Island countries. It is also a regional reference laboratory for the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization. Surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis, a clinical manifestation of poliomyelitis, is coor...

of molecular methods for enterovirus detection, there would be fewer isolates available in future years. To date, nearly 400 poliovirus isolates have been proven to be Sabin vaccine-like. Once the large number of isolates from NSW has been screened, over 950 enteroviruses will have been tested to exclude wild poliovirus. With the expected global eradication of wild poliovirus by the end of the ...