From King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to Mumps Genotyping and Vaccination 26 Centuries Later

Jeryl Lynn Hilleman was diagnosed with mumps infection in 1963. Her father, Maurice Hilleman, a virologist at Merck, collected a throat swab from his 5-year-old daughter, isolated the mumps virus in his laboratory, passaged the virus several times to attenuate the virus, and subsequently produced the Jeryl Lynn strain of mumps vaccine virus.1 In this issue ofPediatrics, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, present an update on mumps infections in the United States in the 21st century.2
Source: PEDIATRICS - Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research